Journal article
Neutrophils and Emphysema
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.321(14), pp.968-970
10/05/1989
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198910053211410
PMID: 2779620
Abstract
IN this issue of the Journal , MacNee and associates 1 report that intense cigarette smoking for about half an hour was associated with the retention of circulating neutrophils in the lungs of the smokers. This was not so in a similar group of cigarette smokers who abstained from smoking for at least one hour or in nonsmokers. This observation is consistent with evidence that neutrophils are important in the pathogenesis of emphysema associated with cigarette smoking. In 1963, Laurell and Erickson observed that subjects whose serum was deficient in α 1 -antitrypsin, now more appropriately referred to as α 1 . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neutrophils and Emphysema
- Creators
- Stephen E McGowanGary W Hunninghake
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.321(14), pp.968-970
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM198910053211410
- PMID
- 2779620
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/05/1989
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983984538702771
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