Ageing and smoking contribute to plasma surfactant proteins and protease imbalance with correlations to airway obstruction

BACKGROUND: A significant number of young people start smoking at an age of 13-15, which means that serious smoking-evoked changes may have been occurred by their twenties. Surfactant proteins (SP) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs) have been linked to cigarette...

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Autores principales: Ilumets, Helen, Mazur, Witold, Toljamo, Tuula, Louhelainen, Noora, Nieminen, Pentti, Kobayashi, Hideo, Ishikawa, Nobuhisa, Kinnula, Vuokko L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-11-19

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-11-19

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