4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal, a specific lipid peroxidation product, is elevated in lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

…, J Stolk, W MacNee, WI De Boer - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
Cigarette smoking results in oxidative stress and inflammation in the lungs, which are
involved in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 4-Hydroxy-2-…

Transforming Growth Factor β1 and Recruitment of Macrophages and Mast Cells in Airways in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

WI de Boer, A van SCHADEWIJK, JK Sont… - American journal of …, 1998 - atsjournals.org
Chronic airways inflammation is one of the features of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD). We demonstrated previously that bronchiolar epithelium in COPD contains …

Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, interleukin 8, and chronic airways inflammation in COPD

WI de Boer, JK Sont, A van Schadewijk… - The Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common causes of death,
with cigarette smoking among the main risk factors. Hallmarks of COPD include chronic …

Natural resource use, crop damage and attitudes of rural people in the vicinity of the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique

WF De Boer, DS Baquete - Environmental Conservation, 1998 - cambridge.org
Participation by local communities in management is widely considered a means of sustaining
protected areas. In parts of the world with a history of armed conflict, the chances of such …

Vacuum-assisted closure in the treatment of poststernotomy mediastinitis

…, MY de Lange, DHE Lichtendahl, WJ de Boer - The Annals of thoracic …, 1999 - Elsevier
A new technique using vacuum-assisted closure was successfully applied in 3 patients with
poststernotomy mediastinitis. After surgical debridement, this vacuum-assisted closure …

Strategic assessment of the magnitude and impacts of sand mining in Poyang Lake, China

J de Leeuw, D Shankman, G Wu, WF de Boer… - Regional Environmental …, 2010 - Springer
Planning for the extraction of aggregates is typically dealt with at a case to case basis, without
assessing environmental impacts strategically. In this study we assess the impact of sand …

Spatial autocorrelation and the scaling of species–environment relationships

…, MB Coughenour, AK Skidmore, WF de Boer… - Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Issues of residual spatial autocorrelation (RSA) and spatial scale are critical to the study of
species–environment relationships, because RSA invalidates many statistical procedures, …

Recombinat hormones: Molecular biology and biochemistry of human recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (Puregon®)

W Olijve, W de Boer, JWM Mulders… - MHR: Basic science …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is a heterodimeric glycoprotein hormone produced in the
anterior pituitary gland. The hormone is essential in the regulation of reproductive processes…

Neutrophil Defensins Enhance Lung Epithelial Wound Closure and Mucin Gene Expression In Vitro

…, S Van Wetering, WI De Boer… - American journal of …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
Human airways are frequently exposed to potentially harmful agents that cause tissue injury.
Upon such injury, a repair process is initiated that comprises cell migration, proliferation, …

[PDF][PDF] Fast terrain rendering using geometrical mipmapping

WH De Boer - Unpublished paper, available at http://www. flipcode …, 2000 - flipcode.com
There is a variety of algorithms out there that speed up rendering of terrain-data, varying from
simple quadtree based frustum-culling of unseen terrain chunks to using occluder sets to …