Smoking Is Associated with Shortened Airway Cilia

Philip L. Leopold; Michael J. O'Mahony; X. Julie Lian; Ann E. Tilley; Ben-Gary Harvey; Ronald G. Crystal

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008157

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Smoking Is Associated with Shortened Airway Cilia

Philip L. Leopold ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Philip L. Leopold, Michael J. O'Mahony, X. Julie Lian

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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Michael J. O'Mahony ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Philip L. Leopold, Michael J. O'Mahony, X. Julie Lian

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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X. Julie Lian ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Philip L. Leopold, Michael J. O'Mahony, X. Julie Lian

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ann E. Tilley,

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ben-Gary Harvey,

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ronald G. Crystal

* E-mail: geneticmedicine@med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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Smoking Is Associated with Shortened Airway Cilia

Philip L. Leopold,
Michael J. O'Mahony,
X. Julie Lian,
Ann E. Tilley,
Ben-Gary Harvey,
Ronald G. Crystal

Published: December 16, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008157

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