How Smoking Causes COPD: Examination of Immune System Changes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
研究概览
简要总结
A breathing condition known as "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" (COPD) caused by cigarette smoking is a major health problem. The way by which smoking leads to lung disease is uncertain. Recent research done in animals provides a description of specific changes (that is a reduction) in these immune cell types as a result of cigarette smoke exposure. The study you have been asked to participate in is a pilot study to see if similar changes occur in humans who smoke. The purpose of this study is to evaluate this new method of testing blood in 3 groups of 10 people: normal non-smoking subjects, subjects who smoke with no history of lung disease and subjects who smoke and have smoking related COPD.
详细描述
The mechanism by which smoking leads to damage to lung tissue in susceptible hosts, is uncertain. Recently there has been description of specific changes (that is reduction) in the number and activity of certain key immune cell types - dendritic cells- as a result of cigarette smoke exposure. This work was done in animal models and we would like to develop methods that will allow us to examine if similar changes occur in humans who smoke. Reduced number and activity of dendritic cells would be expected to lead to increased incidence of infection - a common problem in patients with COPD.
Since dendritic cells come to the lung from the bloodstream, and one can detect them in the circulation, we will look at the dendritic cells that are present in the peripheral blood.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age > 40 years
- •Healthy Subjects - Non smokers
- •FEV1/FVC > 70% predicted
- •Current Smokers - > 10 pack year smoking history
- •FEV1/FVC > 70% predicted
- •Current Smokers with COPD - > 10 pack year smoking history
- •FEV1/FVC < 70% predicted
- •Able to give informed consent
排除标准
- •Healthy Subjects - Reside with smokers
- •History of lung disease
- •Current Smokers - History of lung disease