New mediator of smoking recruits
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 23:35
in Health & Medicine
Freiburg, Germany -- Current research suggests that smoking increases the production of osteopontin in the lungs, which contributes to the development of smoking-related lung disease. The related report by Prasse et al, "Essential role of osteopontin in smoking-related interstitial lung diseases," appears in the May 2009 issue of The American Journal of Pathology.