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Effect of doxycycline in patients of moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with stable symptoms

BACKGROUND: The protease-antiprotease hypothesis proposes that inflammatory cells and oxidative stress in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) produce increased levels of proteolytic enzymes (neutrophil elastase, matrix metalloproteinases [MMP]) which contribute to destruction of parenchyma...

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Autores principales: Dalvi, Prashant S., Singh, Anil, Trivedi, Hiren R., Ghanchi, Feroz D., Parmar, Dinesh M., Mistry, Suresh D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21977068
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.84777