The facilitating effect of cigarette smoke on the colonization of instilled bacteria into the tracheal lumen in rats and the improving influence of supplementary vitamin E on this process

Respirology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-248

  Özlü, Tevfik ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colonization; Lower respiratory tract; Smoking; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRACHEA; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; MALE; PLANTS, TOXIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SMOKE; TOBACCO; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032855460     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.1999.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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