Cigarette smoking and the skeletal muscles

Chest

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-4

  Wagner, Peter D ^a,b  

^a University of California ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 38349075160     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-2112     Document Type: Editorial

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