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Novel insights into the aetiology and pathophysiology of increased airway inflammation during COPD exacerbations

Airway inflammation increases during acute exacerbations of COPD. Extrinsic factors, such as airway infections, increased air pollution, and intrinsic factors, such as increased oxidative stress and altered immunity may contribute to this increase. The evidence for this and the potential mechanisms...

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Autores principales: Tsoumakidou, Maria, Siafakas, Nikolaos M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16716229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-7-80