Regulation of Cigarette Smoke (CS)-Induced Autophagy by Nrf2.

Cigarette smoke (CS) has been reported to induce autophagy in airway epithelial cells. The subsequent autophagic cell death has been proposed to play an important pathogenic role in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, the underlying molecular mechanism is not entirely clear. Using...

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Main Authors: Lingxiang Zhu, Erika C Barrett, Yuxue Xu, Zuguo Liu, Aditya Manoharan, Yin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3621864?pdf=render