Smoking delays CIA onset in mice


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Lindblad, S. S. et al. Smoking and nicotine exposure delay development of collagen-induced arthritis in mice. Arthritis Res. Ther. 11, R88 (2009).


Cigarette smoking and nicotine exposure have been found to delay the development of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice, according to a paper now published in Arthritis Research &


Therapy. “Our data [show] no [evidence] of [a] detrimental influence of cigarette smoke on the development and cause of arthritis,” says the lead researcher Maria Bokarewa from the


University of Göteborg, Sweden.


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