Prolonged cigarette smoke exposure alters mitochondrial structure and function in airway epithelial cells
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Respiratory Research
- Vol. 14 (1), 97
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-14-97
Abstract
Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor for COPD, leading to chronic airway inflammation. We hypothesized that cigarette smoke induces structural and functional changes of airway epithelial mitochondria, with important implications for lung inflammation and COPD pathogenesis.Keywords
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