BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inspired and expired lung volumes measured by spirometry
are useful for detecting, characterising and quantifying the severity of lung disease. …

BACKGROUND ⇓ In preparing the joint statements on lung function testing for the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), it was agreed by the …

In the vertebrate central nervous system, multipotential cells have been identified in vitro
and in vivo. Defined mitogens cause the proliferation of multipotential cells in vitro, the …

… Coates: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; R. Crapo and R. Jensen: LDS
Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; P. Enright: 4460 E Ina Rd, Tucson, AZ, USA; CPM van der …

BACKGROUND This section is written to provide guidance in interpreting pulmonary function
tests (PFTs) to medical directors of hospital-based laboratories that perform PFTs, and …

Background Data on patients with COVID-19 who have cancer are lacking. Here we characterise
the outcomes of a cohort of patients with cancer and COVID-19 and identify potential …

BACKGROUND This joint statement is based on the previous statements from the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), and much of the …

Identifying and understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy within distinct populations may
aid future public health messaging. Using nationally representative data from the general …

Myocardial infarction leads to loss of tissue and impairment of cardiac performance. The
remaining myocytes are unable to reconstitute the necrotic tissue, and the post-infarcted heart …

… Nestin is clearly expressed in radial glial cells (Hockfield and McKay, 1985) as well as
proliferating neuronal stem cells (Frederiksen and McKay, 1988). These results are consistent …