[To characterize the frequency of CD4(+)IL-17(+) cells in the lung alveolar walls, small airways and muscular pulmonary arteries of nonsmokers, smokers with normal lung function and COPD patients, CD4(+)IL-17(+) cell number was assessed using double immunofluorescence staining, and IL-17 and IL-21 expression were measured using real-time quantitative PCR in the peripheral lung tissues of 10 nonsmokers, 10 smokers with normal lung function and 10 smokers with stable COPD.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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