COPD and Alcohol: How Does Alcohol Affect COPD?
Over the past two decades, studies demonstrated that brief exposure to modest alcohol concentrations triggers generation of nitric oxide (NO) in the airway epithelial cells. This NO production stimulates a signaling pathway that involves the enzyme guanylyl cyclase, which produces a compound called cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). CGMP, in turn, activates cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), […]
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