Histological changes in oral mucosa in smokers : agNORS are histological biomarkers for oxygenic stress in smokers and COPD patients
Tobacco smoke cause cellular proliferation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but changes in buccal mucosa cells in smokers and COPD patients remain unknown. Few studies have been done in humans to determine how smoking affects the epithelial cells of the pulmonary airways which was n...
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University of Sunderland
2011
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551203 |