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The elastin peptide VGVAPG increases CD4(+) T-cell IL-4 production in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
BACKGROUND: In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung-infiltrating inflammatory cells secrete proteases and participate in elastin breakdown and genesis of elastin-derived peptides (EP). In the present study, we hypothesized that the pattern of T lymphocytes cytokine expression may be mo...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33435988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01609-4 |