New Study Finds That Cigarette Smoke Exposure Impairs Infant Lungs

US researchers report that exposure to cigarette smoke inhibits innate gene expression and impairs alveolar growth in neonatal mice.Sharon McGrath-Morrow from John Hopkin Medical Institute wrote in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology that their findings may in part explain the increased incidence of respiratory symptoms in infants and children exposed to cigarette smoke.

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Filed under: Respiratory on April 8th, 2008