Augmenting autophagy for prognosis based intervention of COPD-pathophysiology

Abstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is foremost among the non-reversible fatal ailments where exposure to tobacco/biomass-smoke and aging are the major risk factors for the initiation and progression of the obstructive lung disease. The role of smoke-induced inflammatory-oxidative...

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Main Authors: Manish Bodas, Neeraj Vij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Respiratory Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-017-0560-7