Responsiveness of blood and sputum inflammatory cells in Japanese COPD patients, non-COPD smoking controls, and non-COPD nonsmoking controls

PURPOSE: To compare pulmonary and systemic inflammatory mediator release, pre- and poststimulation, ex vivo, in cells from Japanese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), non-COPD smoking controls, and non-COPD nonsmoking controls (NSC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a nontreat...

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Autores principales: Kawayama, Tomotaka, Kinoshita, Takashi, Matsunaga, Kazuko, Kobayashi, Akihiro, Hayamizu, Tomoyuki, Johnson, Malcolm, Hoshino, Tomoaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4755695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929615
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S95686

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