Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cell counts in cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and their relation to therapy.

Analysis of proteins and respiratory cells obtained from human lungs by bronchial lavage.

1974 • 654 citations

Analysis of cellular and protein content of broncho-alveolar lavage fluid from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

1977 • 570 citations

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: clinical features and their influence on survival

1980 • 529 citations

Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Interstitial Lung Disease

1978 • 302 citations

Circulating Immune Complexes in the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

1978 • 281 citations

Collagenase Production by Lymphokine-Activated Macrophages

1975 • 269 citations

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: response to corticosteroid treatment and its effect on survival

1980 • 253 citations

DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF CHRONIC BRONCHITIS FOR CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PURPOSES

1965 • 222 citations

UICC/Cincinnati Classification of the Radiographic Appearances of Pneumoconioses

1970 • 147 citations

Pathogenic mechanisms in pulmonary fibrosis: collagen-induced migration inhibition factor production and cytotoxicity mediated by lymphocytes.

1976 • 131 citations

Angiotensin Convertase Activities in Human Alveolar Macrophages: Effects of Cigarette Smoking and Sarcoidosis

1979 • 121 citations

Cytoplasmic inclusions in pulmonary macrophages of cigarette smokers.

1975 • 112 citations

Effects of Granulocyte Neutral Proteases on Complement Components

1976 • 102 citations

The ultrastructure of alveolar macrophages from human cigarette smokers and nonsmokers.

1971 • 96 citations

Studies on blood eosinophils. I. Patients with a transient eosinophilia.

1976 • 96 citations

Immunocompetent cells from the lower respiratory tract of normal human lungs.

1975 • 93 citations

Activation of alveolar macrophage collagenase by a neutral protease secreted by the same cell

1976 • 78 citations

Circulating immune complexes in patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.

1979 • 71 citations

Bronchoalveolar lavage for the preparation of free lung cells: Technique and complications

1980 • 53 citations

Eosinophil chemotactic factor (ECF). II. Release from human polymorphonuclear leukocytes during phagocytosis.

1976 • 52 citations

Antibodies in some chronic fibrosing lung diseases

1971 • 51 citations

Comparison of the Alveolitis of Sarcoidosis and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

1979 • 24 citations

Pathogenetic Studies in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

1979 • 21 citations

Inorganic cytoplasmic inclusions in alveolar macrophages. The role of cigarette smoking.

1978 • 16 citations

Pathogenetic Studies in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

1979 • 6 citations