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Article: Copper deficiency induces pulmonary endothelial inflammation.
- Article from:
- Respiratory Therapeutics Week
- Article date:
- August 9, 2004
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2004 AUG 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The effects of inadequate copper intake on pulmonary endothelial inflammation have been elucidated.
"Dietary copper deficiency increases the accumulation of circulating neutrophils in the rat lung microcirculation," immunologists in Kentucky noted. "This process includes neutrophil adhesion to, migration along, and emigration though the vascular endothelium."
D. Lominadze and colleagues at the University of Louisville conducted a study "to examine the role of copper in each of these steps."
"Neutrophils were isolated from rats fed either a copper-adequate (CuA, 6.1 microg Cu/g diet) or copper-deficient ...