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What happens if a smoker's lung, the simple squamous et is replaced w/ stratified et, why is it bad?
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While I don't: understand the molecular biology of it, chronic irritation of respiratory (and other kinds of) epithelium results in metaplastic changes - making stratified squamous epithelium - prior to developing neoplastic changes in individual cells - the production of malignant cells. If this is you, it is time to quit. Help is available.
Answered 10/4/2016
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