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Acetylcysteine and lung disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2013
In a nutshell
NAC is an antioxidant that stimulates GSH production. As many lung diseases involve oxidative stress, trying antioxidant treatments makes sense.
Clinical evidence supports some role for NAC in treating chronic bronchitis and COPD. Its value in other clinical situations (e.g. idiopathic lung fibrosis) is so far less clear.
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