Smokers do not have less functional alpha 1-protease inhibitor in their lower respiratory tracts than nonsmokers.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT: We thank Drs. S. Y. Yu (VA Hospital, St. Louis) for preparations of mI labeled desmosine, and R. B. Rucker (University of California, Davis) and L. B. Sandberg (University of Utah College of Medicine) for purified tropoelastins. Chick embryo lysyl oxidase was a generous gift from Dr. S. N. Narayanan (University of Washington, Seattle). Kentucky reference 2 RI cigarettes were kindly supplied by Mr. J. Wyatt. Supported by PHS grants HL-14262, HL-19717, AM-18880 and Council for Tobacco Research-USA grant 1143.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chest
دوره 83 5 Suppl شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1983