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Chronic inhalation of cigarette smoke reduces phagocytosis in peripheral blood leukocytes

BACKGROUND: Phagocytosis activity of peripheral blood leukocytes in smokers or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients was found to be controversial and dependent on the phagocytic stimulus. RESULTS: We demonstrated that long-term exposure to cigarette smoke in mice clearly suppressed the pha...

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Autores principales: Tschernig, Thomas, Rabung, Andrea, Voss, Meike, Meier, Carola, Bals, Robert, Beisswenger, Christoph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26597815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1706-7