Interleukin-17–producing innate lymphoid cells and the NLRP3 inflammasome facilitate obesity-associated airway hyperreactivity

…, KA Fitzgerald, Y Iwakura, E Israel, K Bolger… - Nature medicine, 2014 - nature.com
Obesity is associated with the development of asthma, which is often difficult to control. To
understand the immunological pathways that lead to obesity-associated asthma, we fed mice …

Serum vitamin D is significantly inversely associated with disease severity in Caucasian adults with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

CP Kerley, K Hutchinson, K Bolger, A McGowan, J Faul… - Sleep, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Study Objectives: To evaluate vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
(OSAS) and possible relationships to OSAS severity, sleepiness, lung function, nocturnal …

Dietary nitrate supplementation in COPD: An acute, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial☆

CP Kerley, K Cahill, K Bolger, A McGowan, C Burke… - Nitric Oxide, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The acute consumption of dietary nitrate has been shown to improve exercise
capacity in athletes, healthy adults and subjects with peripheral vascular disease. Many …

A case report: symptomatic pericarditis post-COVID-19 vaccination

S Ashaari, HA Sohaib, K Bolger - European Heart Journal-Case …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to the rapid
development of COVID-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has …

Interventions to standardise hospital care at presentation, admission or discharge or to reduce unnecessary admissions or readmissions for patients with acute …

…, J Brennan, E Kelly, K Bolger… - BMJ open …, 2020 - bmjopenrespres.bmj.com
Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disease
that may be punctuated by episodes of worsening symptoms, called exacerbations. Acute …

[HTML][HTML] Isolation of Hafnia alvei from bronchoalveolar lavage of an immunocompetent host presenting with cavitating pneumonia: Contaminant or Causative?

J Lim, K Bolger, B Canavan - Germs, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conclusions We present a case of community-acquired cavitary pneumonia in a previously
healthy young adult with H. alvei isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage samples. Parallels …

LSC Abstract–The use of microarray analysis of gene signalling to determine heterogeneity of COPD exacerbation phenotypes

K Bolger - 2016 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are heterogenous with respect
to aetiology, inflammatory pathways and inflammation severity. This study was designed …

Gene signalling heterogeneity in exacerbations of COPD determined by microarray analysis of PBMC mRNA

K Bolger, A Bosco, P Holt, C Burke - 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are heterogeneous with
respect to aetiology, inflammatory pathways and inflammation severity. This study was …

Vitamin D and airway obstruction in an urban Irish asthmatic population

C Kerley, K Bolger, K Hutchinson, C Cormican, J Faul - 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background: Ireland has a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, but the link, if any,
between serum vitamin D levels and airway obstruction in asthma remains unclear. Methods: …

Supplemental dietary nitrate for COPD: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial

C Kerley, K Cahill, K Bolger, J Faul, C Burke… - 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Introduction: Nitric oxide (NO) is an important systemic and pulmonary arterial vasodilator.
The conversion of nitrite (derived from dietary nitrate) to nitric oxide can occur independent of …