Anti-p-benzoquinone antibody level as a prospective biomarker to identify smokers at risk for COPD

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Identification of smokers having predisposition to COPD is important for early intervention to reduce the huge global burden of the disease. Using a guinea pig model, we have shown that p-benzoquinone (p-BQ) derived from cigarette smoke (CS) in the lung is a causative facto...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Santanu, Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi, Mitra, Subhra, Kundu, Somenath, Panda, Samiran, Chatterjee, Indu B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684907
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S134455

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684907
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S134455

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