Smoking Is Associated with Shortened Airway Cilia

BACKGROUND: Whereas cilia damage and reduced cilia beat frequency have been implicated as causative of reduced mucociliary clearance in smokers, theoretically mucociliary clearance could also be affected by cilia length. Based on models of mucociliary clearance predicting that cilia length must exce...

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Autores principales: Leopold, Philip L., O'Mahony, Michael J., Lian, X. Julie, Tilley, Ann E., Harvey, Ben-Gary, Crystal, Ronald G.
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/PMC2790614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008157

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008157

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