Smoking reduces surfactant protein D and phospholipids in patients with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary surfactant D (SP-D) has important regulatory functions for innate immunity and has been implicated as a biomarker for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We hypothesized that COPD patients would have reduced bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid SP-D levels compared to h...

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Autores principales: Moré, Jayaji M, Voelker, Dennis R, Silveira, Lori J, Edwards, Michael G, Chan, Edward D, Bowler, Russell P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-10-53

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-10-53

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