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BMC Cancer, 2018 Background COPD patients are at increased risk of developing non-small cell lung carcinoma that has a worse prognosis. Oxidative stress contributes to carcinogenesis and is increased in COPD patients due to mitochondrial dysfunction.
F. Ng Kee Kwong +4 more
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A Case of Bowen’s Disease and Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma: Long-Term Consequences of Chronic Arsenic Exposure in Chinese Traditional Medicine [PDF]
, 2004 Chronic arsenic toxicity occurs primarily through inadvertent ingestion of contaminated water and food or occupational exposure, but it can also occur through medicinal ingestion.
Castren K +8 more
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Claudins in lung diseases [PDF]
Respiratory Research, 2011 Tight junctions are the most apically localized part of the epithelial junctional complex. They regulate the permeability and polarity of cell layers and create compartments in cell membranes. Claudins are structural molecules of tight junctions.
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Immunotherapy of lung cancer: An update [PDF]
, 2006 In Germany lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated death in men. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation may enhance survival of patients suffering from lung cancer but the enhancement is typically transient and mostly absent with advanced ...
Aman MJ +36 more
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Chylothorax Management Four Years Post Spine Surgery: A Successful Conservative Treatment
Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2023 Background: Chylothorax is a pathological condition associated with a high mortality and morbidity rate. The first observation of chylothorax associated with thoracic vertebral injury was documented by Krabbell in 1885.
Ilir Skenduli +4 more
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Isolated major aortopulmonary collateral as the sole pulmonary blood supply to an entire lung segment [PDF]
, 2017 Congenital systemic-to-pulmonary collateral arteries or major aortopulmonary collaterals are associated with cyanotic congenital heart disease with decreased pulmonary blood flow.
Grady, R. Mark +2 more
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Chest, 1989 Lung disease is common in the tropics; lower respiratory tract infections are a major cause of mortality, especially in children under 5 years of age. The World Health Organization has launched strategies to tackle this killer of children. Infections, including tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis, find vulnerable hosts in the tropics where ...
Papanikolaou, Ilias C. +1 more
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Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency [PDF]
, 2001 α-1 antitrypsin is synthesised in the liver and protects lung alveolar tissues from destruction by neutrophil elastase. α-1 antitrypsin deficiency is a common autosomal recessive condition (1:1600 to 1:1800) in which liver disease results from retention ...
Primhak, R.A., Tanner, M.S.
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Histology and histopathology, 2016 Telocytes (TCs) represent a new distinct type of interstitial cells found in many organs, including lungs. TCs are mainly defined by a small cellular body from which arise very long (hundreds of micrometers) extensions named telopodes. During the last years, TCs were characterized in respect with their microRNA profiles, gene features and proteome ...
Xiangdong Wang +3 more
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