This study was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30425007 and No. 30370627).Acknowledgement: We are grateful to LIAO Ga for the haplotype analysis, to YUN Li-bing and ZHOU Bin for the DHPLC analysis, and to JIA Zheng for helpful discussions. We are deeply grateful to the patients and families for their cooperation.
Background The main risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is cigarette smoking. However, only 10%-20% of chronic heavy smokers develop systematic COPD. We hypothesized that the inheritance of ...
This study was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China to Dr. WEN Fu-qing (No. 30425007, 30370627, 30670921) and from China Medical Board of New York to Dr. WEN Fu-qiang (No. 0-722).
Background Mucus hypersecretion in the respiratory tract and goblet cell metaplasia in the airway epithelium contribute to the morbidity and mortality associated with airway inflammatory diseases. This study aimed to ...
This study was supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China and China Medical Board of New York to Dr. Wen (No. 30425007, 30370627, 00-722, 00-384).
Mucus hypersecretion is a distinguishing feature of chronic inflammation diseases, such as asthma,chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis Mucus hypersecretion leads to impairment of mucociliary clearanc...
This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No 30425007,30370627); from the China Medical Board of New York to Dr Fu-qiang WEN(No 00-722).
Aim: To investigate the relationship between aquaporin-5 (AQPs) expression and mucus overproduction in the airways of Chinese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the correlation with pu...