Immune and inflammatory function in cigarette smokers.
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Immune and inflammatory function in cigarette smokers.
Tobacco smoking is associated with increased prevalence of various diseases, both in the respiratory tract and in distal organs. The possibility that tobacco smoke induced changes in immune and inflammatory processes may play a part in the aetiology and pathogenesis of many of these diseases was first recognised in the mid 1960s. The ensuing decade witnessed a steadily increasing research effor...
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Tobacco smoking is associated with increased prevalence of various diseases, both in the respiratory tract and in distal organs. The possibility that tobacco smoke induced changes in immune and inflammatory processes may play a part in the aetiology and pathogenesis of many of these diseases was first recognised in the mid 1960s. The ensuing decade witnessed a steadily increasing research effor...
متن کاملImmune and inflammatory function in cigarette smokers
Tobacco smoking is associated with increased prevalence of various diseases, both in the respiratory tract and in distal organs. The possibility that tobacco smoke induced changes in immune and inflammatory processes may play a part in the aetiology and pathogenesis of many of these diseases was first recognised in the mid 1960s. The ensuing decade witnessed a steadily increasing research effor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.42.4.241