Nicotine stimulates branching and expression of SP-A and SP-C mRNAs in embryonic mouse lung culture

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Although the effects of maternal smoking on fetal growth and viability are overwhelmingly negative, there is a paradoxical enhancement of lung maturation as evidenced, in part, by a lower incidence of respiratory distress syndrome in infants of smoking mothers. Other epidemiologic and experimental evidence further support the view that a tobacco smoke constituent, possibly nicotine, affects the development of the...

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