37
Participants
Start Date
November 16, 2011
Primary Completion Date
February 1, 2018
Study Completion Date
February 1, 2018
capacity of primary phagocytes
measurement of capacity of primary phagocytes (neutrophils, monocytes and macrophages) isolated from COPD patients' blood or alveolar macrophages isolated from patients' lungs to carry out key host defence functions and compare these to similar cells isolated from age and sex-matched non-smokers or smokers without COPD as controls.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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