Vitamin D deficiency exacerbates COPD-like characteristics in the lungs of cigarette smoke-exposed mice

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by excessive inflammation and disturbed bacterial clearance in the airways. Although cigarette smoke (CS) exposure poses a major risk, vitamin D deficiency could potentially contribute to COPD progression. Many in vitro studie...

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Publié dans:Respir Res
Auteurs principaux: Heulens, Nele, Korf, Hannelie, Cielen, Nele, De Smidt, Elien, Maes, Karen, Gysemans, Conny, Verbeken, Erik, Gayan-Ramirez, Ghislaine, Mathieu, Chantal, Janssens, Wim
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2015
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574263/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376849
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-015-0271-x
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