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Is there an association between angiotensin-converting enzyme gene variants and chronic nonproductive cough?
Chest - 1 Oct 2000
McGarvey L P, Savage D A, Feeney S A, Heaney L G, Ennis M, MacMahon J, Maxwell A P
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BACKGROUND: It is unclear why some patients develop a chronic nonproductive cough. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inactivates tussive peptides in the airways such as bradykinin and tachykinins. An insertion/deletion polymorphism in the ACE gene accounts for variation in ACE levels, and patients with the II genotype have lowest serum ACE levels compared with ID and DD genotypes. We hypothesized that the II...
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