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View Post: Causes of Stridor and Wheeze (Breathing Sounds)
Current Health ...
20 Nov 2009 by Dr. Chris   ...
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View Post: Metals and diesel emissions linked to respiratory symptoms in kids
24 Nov 2009 by Ani  
Smoking has always been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Exposure to air pollution increases infants' bronchiolitis risk. November 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Increased exposure to air pollution might put infants ...
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View Post: Double Deficiency of Tetraspanins CD9 and CD81 Alters Cell ...
12 Sep 2008 by Takeda, Y., He, P., Tachibana, I., Zhou,...  
In line with this, CD9/CD81 double-knock-out mice spontaneously developed pulmonary emphysema, a major pathological component of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ... Secretory cell metaplasia, a finding similar to goblet cell metaplasia in cigarette smokers, was also observed in the epithelium of terminal bronchioles. With aging, the double-knockout mice showed extrapulmonary phenotypes, including weight loss, kyphosis, and osteopenia. ...
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View Post: Friday's COPD Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.
COPD News Of ...
28 Sep 2009 ...
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View Post: What is a good respiratory disease to do a research paper on?
15 Nov 2009 by Benedict  
Might I suggest COPD? It stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, an umbrella term for emphysema and chronic bronchitis. There are other diseases under the umbrella, but those are the 2 main ones. They are both primarily caused ...
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View Post: My Own Medical Experience: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ...
14 Jul 2009 by siti nurbaiya  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, penyakit si perokok. COPD characterize by chronic airflow limitation due to small bronchiolitis and lung parenchyma disease (emphysema). It is preventable and treatable. COPD main risk factor are ...
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View Post: TutorTime Complaints - Child Safety
30 Oct 2009
Chronic bronchitis, on the other hand, occurs most often in people who smoke and, together with emphysema, is known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Chronic bronchitis is characterized by a productive (wet) cough that is persistent. The mucus that's produced by the ... Bronchiolitis is bronchiole inflammation, usually caused by a virus infection. This lung infection has it's greatest health impact on young children, especially infants under 6 months. ...
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View Post: COPD
Texas Occupational Medicine Institute
8 Jul 2009 by Dr. Haber   ...
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View Post: Respiratory Research
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View Blog: TNF-α is a proinflammatory cytokine with pro-fibrotic features which has a key role in lower respiratory tract infections as well as in chronic inflammatory lung disease like asthma, bronchiolitis obliterans, or COPD [11,26,27].

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