State of the Art. Apoptosis and Cell Homeostasis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Examination of lung tissue from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reveals the presence of apoptotic cells (1–3). This raises two key questions: What induces the apoptosis and how important is it for pathogenesis of the disease? However, before considering these questions, it is important to emphasize that the Kasahara and colleagues' study (1) used a variety of approaches to show that the...

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