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Airway epithelial platelet-activating factor receptor expression is markedly upregulated in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: We recently published that platelet-activating factor receptor (PAFr) is upregulated on the epithelium of the proximal airways of current smokers and also in bronchial epithelial cells exposed to cigarette smoke extract. These treated cells also showed upregulation of Streptococcus pneum...

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Autores principales: Shukla, Shakti Dhar, Sohal, Sukhwinder Singh, Mahmood, Malik Quasir, Reid, David, Muller, Hans Konrad, Walters, Eugene Haydn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4137917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25143722
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S67044