Cigarette smoke inhibits the growth of lung fibroblasts from patients with pulmonary emphysema

Respirology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 217-223

  Nobukuni, Sumie ^a   Watanabe, Kentaro ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a   Wen, Fu Qiang ^a   Tamaru, Noriko ^a   Yoshida, Minoru ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoke extract; Human lung fibroblasts; Pulmonary emphysema; Volume reduction surgery

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SMOKE; TOBACCO;

EID: 0036736938     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2002.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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