The role of bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein in men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) is a member of the pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune system. Recently, an association between genetic polymorphism in the BPI gene and a risk of airflow decline after transplantation was demonstrated, but whether these findings are reproducible in nontransplantation populations, such as those with COPD, is still unknown....

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