Article
Direct Effects of Cigarette Smoke in Pulmonary Arterial Cells alter Vascular Tone through Arterial Remodeling and Kv7.4 Channel Dysregulation
2019-02-21
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a widespread disease, with no curative therapies nowadays. Exposure to cigarette smoking is considered the chief leading cause of COPD. Current drugs therapies improve patient quality of life, however they do not revert the progression of the disease. Therefore, a deeper study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie this pathology is required to be abl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 76432121-ae12-52d4-8afb-53e106a2429f
- DOI
- 10.1101/555953
