Endotoxin in the air: Good or bad for you?

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 140-147

  Rylander, Ragnar ^a  

^a BioFact Environmental Health Research Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airways inflammation; Asthma; Endotoxin; Lung cancer; Toxic pneumonitis

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADAPTATION; AIR; AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPY; DUST; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENT; EXPOSURE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RISK; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 34248512716     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e3180557041     Document Type: Review

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