Abstract
Repetitive, acute inflammatory insults elicited by cigarette smoke (CS) contribute to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disorder associated with lung inflammation and mucus hypersecretion. Presently, there is a poor understanding of the acute inflammatory mechanisms involved in this process. The aims of this study were to develop an acute model to investigate temporal inflammatory changes occurring after CS exposure. Rats were exposed to whole body CS (once daily) generated from filtered research cigarettes. Initial studies indicated the generation of a neutrophilic/mucus hypersecreting lung phenotype in
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | L514-L522 |
Journal | American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology |
Volume | 288 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2005 |
Keywords
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- neutrophils
- smoking
- cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant