Aging does not enhance experimental cigarette smoke-induced COPD in the mouse.

It has been proposed that the development of COPD is driven by premature aging/premature senescence of lung parenchyma cells. There are data suggesting that old mice develop a greater inflammatory and lower anti-oxidant response after cigarette smoke compared to young mice, but whether these differe...

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Main Authors: Steven Zhou, Joanne L Wright, Joseph Liu, Don D Sin, Andrew Churg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3732225?pdf=render