Merging personalized medicine and biology of aging in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 864-866

  Shapiro, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; CIGARETTE SMOKE; COLLAGEN; DNA; FAMILY WITH SEQUENCE SIMILARITY 13 MEMBER A PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG INTERACTING PROTEIN; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 2; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SERPINE2 PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SMOKE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TOBACCO;

EID: 80054702718     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201108-1486ED     Document Type: Editorial

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