Asthma: environmental and occupational factors
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Environmental and occupational asthma. Exposure assessment.
T he investigation ofallergic lung diseases has focused on the nature of the response. As a consequence, knowledge of the physiology, pathology, cellular and molecular biology ofthese diseases, and in particular ofasthma, is now considerable. In contrast, studies of the exposures that initiate and provoke asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been few, and our understanding of them corre...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1471-8391,0007-1420
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldg021