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Comment
. 2013 Aug;68(8):783-4.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203373. Epub 2013 Mar 14.

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in small airways of COPD patients

Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, Eugene Haydn Walters
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Comment

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in small airways of COPD patients

Sukhwinder Singh Sohal et al. Thorax. 2013 Aug.
Free PMC article
No abstract available

Keywords: Airway Epithelium; COPD Pathology.

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Small airways in surgically resected lung sections from smokers undergoing thoracotomy: (A) black arrows indicating E-cadherin expression in the epithelium; (B) black arrows indicating N-cadherin expression in the epithelium.
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