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Jia-Wei Xu1,2, Fang-Fang Chen1, Ying-Hui Qv1

  • 1Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Characteristic Laboratory of Clinical Transformation of Respiratory Biological Immunity and Regenerative Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, 250014, People's Republic of China.

Journal of Inflammation Research
|October 29, 2024
PubMed
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Keywords:
AdipoR1AdipoRonPseudomonas aeruginosabronchiectasissphingosine metabolism

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