Correspondence to: Dr. Ph. Godard, Clinique des maladies respiratoires, Avenue Major Flandre, F-34059 Montpellier (France) Bronchial asthma has been defined as a bronchial disease inducing a reversible airway obstruction. Reed [1] proposed to name it: eosinophilic desquama-tive chronic bronchitis. This term is very interesting because it outlines the importance of inflammation in the pathogenes...

Résumé Cet article a pour point de départ la querelle épistémologique survenue entre Anthony D. Smith et Jon E. Fox Cynthia Miller-Idriss concernant les différentes approches du champ d’études nationalisme. Alors que rejettent pertinence d'une approche sociohistorique dans l’étude ethnographique nationalisme, considère l'ethnographie comme une pratique descriptiviste dénuée d'intérêt scientifiq...

Objective This population-based survey was conducted to provide a formal description of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) in children on a nationwide basis and assess the contribution of risk factors, principally nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). Methods A case-crossover study of UGIB patients aged between 2 months and 16 years was conducted in France. Medical data were collect...

Knowledge of quantitative genetic parameters is crucial in allocating resources for different steps of multistage selection programs. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the magnitude of variance of general combining ability (GCA) and specifi c combining ability (SCA) effects and their interaction with environments in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). We used four data sets (...

To the Editor: We read the manuscript by Lofgren et al. (7) with great interest and would like to compliment them for an excellent comparison and validation of plethysmographic methods to assess airway function in mice. There are two errors that we would like to bring to the authors’ notice. First, the units of specific airway resistance (sRaw) should be cmH2O s not cmH2O/s {sRaw Raw TGV (press...