TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Fathi Abdallah AU - Eman Mohammed Obaia , AU - Nabila Ebrahim Laz , AU - Samia Mostafa Mohammed , TI - Effect of smoking and inhaled steroid on circulating surfactant protein D level in COPD / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Fathi Abdallah , KW - COPD KW - Lung specific biomarker KW - SP- D N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - The aim of the present work was to evaluate the utility of serum SP- D , a lung derived protein as a biomarker for COPD and to assess the effect of smoking and inhaled steroid on its levels . Seventy subjects were enrolled in this study divided into 2 main groups : healthy control group (30 subjects) and COPD patients' group (40 subjects) serum SP- D was measured using a colorimetric sandwich immunoassay method UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -