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The influence of nicotine on granulocytic differentiation – Inhibition of the oxidative burst and bacterial killing and increased matrix metalloproteinase-9 release

BACKGROUND: Neutrophils leave the bone marrow as terminally differentiated cells, yet little is known of the influence of nicotine or other tobacco smoke components on neutrophil differentiation. Therefore, promyelocytic HL-60 cells were differentiated into neutrophils using dimethylsulfoxide in the...

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Autores principales: Xu, Minqi, Scott, James E, Liu, Kan-Zhi, Bishop, Hannah R, Renaud, Diane E, Palmer, Richard M, Soussi-Gounni, Abdel, Scott, David A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18412948
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2121-9-19