Maintained Smoking Cessation for 6 Months Equilibrates the Percentage of Sputum CD8(+) Lymphocyte Cells with That of Nonsmokers

Little is known about the longitudinal effects of smoking cessation on sputum inflammatory cells. We aimed to investigate the changes in sputum inflammatory cells and T-lymphocyte subpopulations after 6 and 12 months smoking cessation. Induced sputum was obtained from 68 healthy smokers before and a...

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Autores principales: Bouloukaki, Izolde, Tsoumakidou, Maria, Vardavas, Constantine I., Mitrouska, Ioanna, Koutala, Eleni, Siafakas, Nikolaos M., Schiza, Sophia E., Tzanakis, Nikos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
Materias:
Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/812102

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/812102

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