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Age related increase in the intra-alveolar macrophage population of non-smokers
W A Wallace1, M Gillooly, D Lamb
1Department of Pathology, Edinburgh University Medical School.
Thorax
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
The alveolar macrophage population is higher in smokers than in non-smokers. An age related increase in the alveolar macrophage number in the lungs of non-smokers has been found, whether expressed per unit lung volume or per unit lung surface area.