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Perinatal nicotine exposure induces asthma in second generation offspring

BACKGROUND: By altering specific developmental signaling pathways that are necessary for fetal lung development, perinatal nicotine exposure affects lung growth and differentiation, resulting in the offsprings' predisposition to childhood asthma; peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma...

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Autores principales: Rehan, Virender K, Liu, Jie, Naeem, Erum, Tian, Jia, Sakurai, Reiko, Kwong, Kenny, Akbari, Omid, Torday, John S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23106849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-129