Healthy passive cigarette smokers have increased pulmonary alveolar permeability

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 75-77

  Beadsmoore, Clare ^a   Cheow, Heok K ^a   Szczepura, Katherine ^a   Ruparelia, Prina ^a   Michael Peters, A ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Lung function; Passive smoking

Indexed keywords

PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PERMEABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERMEABILITY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMOKING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 33846020944     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328013eb1e     Document Type: Article

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