Regulation of cigarette smoke-mediated m
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Hongmei Yu; Qi Li; Victor P. Kolosov; Juliy M. Perelman; Xiangdong Zhou
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## ABSTRACT Cigarette smoking is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Mucus hypersecretion is the key manifestation in patients with COPD and mucin 5AC (MUC5AC) is a major component of airway mucus. Hypoxia inducible factor‐1 (HIF‐1) is a transcri