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Variability of antioxidant-related gene expression in the airway epithelium of cigarette smokers.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Sept 2003
Hackett Neil R, Heguy Adriana, Harvey Ben-Gary, O'Connor Timothy P, Luettich Karsta, Flieder Douglas B, Kaplan Rana, Crystal Ronald G
Abstract excerpt
Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor for developing chronic bronchitis, yet only 15-20% of smokers develop this disorder. Because oxidants are the major mechanism of smoking-induced airway damage, we hypothesized that smoking is associated with upregulation of various antioxidant-related genes in the airway epithelium, but the magnitude of the response shows high inter-individual variability. Microarray...
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