... are different. We investigated the perception of bronchoconstriction in subjects with bronchiectasis, asthma and chronic bronchitis and possible contributing factors. Forty-seven non-smoking subjects with bronchiectasis, 50 subjects with asthma and 31 with chronic bronchitis were challenged with histamine...

... resected for bronchial carcinoma. The tissue distribution of 125 I-cyanopindol-binding sites was assessed by autoradiography of complementary cryostat sections. The data obtained from the resections for carcinoma and bronchiectasis were used as disease controls for comparison with those obtained from...

... recruitment to the lung by chemotaxis. 2. Circulating PMN from patients with bronchiectasis show a variable chemotactic response to the synthetic peptide N -formyl- l -methionyl- l -leucyl- l -phenylalanine. This is similar to the response of PMN from healthy controls and suggests that failure to clear...