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Airway inflammation in Japanese COPD patients compared with smoking and nonsmoking controls
PURPOSE: To assess the importance of inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by measuring airway and systemic inflammatory biomarkers in Japanese patients with the disease and relevant control groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was the first study of its type in Japanese COPD pa...
Autores principales: | Ishikawa, Nobuhisa, Hattori, Noboru, Kohno, Nobuoki, Kobayashi, Akihiro, Hayamizu, Tomoyuki, Johnson, Malcolm |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25670894 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S74557 |
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