Impact of Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Innate Immunity: A Caenorhabditis elegans Model

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. Respiratory bacterial infections have been shown to be involved in the development of COPD along with impaired airway innate immunity. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: To address the in v...

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Autores principales: Green, Rebecca M., Gally, Fabienne, Keeney, Jonathon G., Alper, Scott, Gao, Bifeng, Han, Min, Martin, Richard J., Weinberger, Andrew R., Case, Stephanie R., Minor, Maisha N., Chu, Hong Wei
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006860

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