Evidence of a defective thiol status of alveolar macrophages from COPD patients and smokers

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1160-1165

  Täger, Michael ^a,b   Piecyk, Andreas ^a   Köhnlein, Thomas ^a   Thiel, Ute ^a   Ansorge, Siegfried ^a   Welte, Tobias ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Immunology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alveolar macrophages; COPD; Free radicals; Smokers; Thiols

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; THIOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SMOKING; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034565419     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(00)00424-X     Document Type: Article

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