Environmental Pollution and the Developing Lung
In this review, we discuss the impact of environmental tobacco smoke and particulate and gaseous air pollutants derived from fossil fuel combustion on a particularly vulnerable population, infants, and children. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants exacerbate chronic respiratory diseases and lower respiratory tract infections. However, there is an even more alarming impact of antenatal air pollution exposures. There are several reports in rodents and monkeys that maternal exposure to tobacco smoke or fossil fuel–generated air pollutants causes in utero growth retardation, lung remodeling, and immune cell activation that inc...
Source: Clinical Pulmonary Medicine - June 24, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Topics in Pulmonary Medicine Source Type: research
