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Cigarette smoke can activate the alternative pathway of complement in vitro by modifying the third component of complement.

Cigarette smoking is associated with significant increases in the number of pulmonary mononuclear phagocytes and neutrophils. A potent chemoattractant for these cells is C5a, a peptide generated during complement (C) activation. We, therefore, investigated the possibility that cigarette smoke could...

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Hauptverfasser: Kew, R R, Ghebrehiwet, B, Janoff, A
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1985
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC423647/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3156879
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