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• Researchers pinpoint how trees play role in smog production

  After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show exactly how trees help create one of society's predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit isoprene, an abun more

• Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease

  In the air, it is a serious pollutant. In the body, it plays a role in heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals and immune function. Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of Princeton and Rice U more

• UCI scientists discover ozone-boosting chemical reaction

  Burning of fossil fuels pumps chemicals into the air that react on surfaces such as buildings and roads to create photochemical smog-forming chlorine atoms, UC Irvine scientists report in a new study. Under extreme circumstances, this previously unknown chemistry could account for up to 40 parts pe more

Publications Asthma

• The Coexistence of Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Prevalence and Risk Factors in Young, Middle-aged and Elderly People from the General Population

  by Roberto de Marco, Giancarlo Pesce, Alessandro Marcon, Simone Accordini, Leonardo Antonicelli, Massimiliano Bugiani, Lucio Casali, Marcello Ferrari, Gabriele Nicolini, Maria Grazia Panico, Pietro Pirina, Maria Elisabetta Zanolin, Isa Cerveri, Giuseppe Verlato Background The joint distribution o more

• A leukotriene C4 synthase inhibitor with the backbone of 5-(5-methylene-4-oxo-4,5-dihydrothiazol-2-ylamino) isophthalic acid

  The cysteinyl leukotrienes (cys-LTs), leukotriene C4 (LTC4) and its metabolites, LTD4 and LTE4, are proinflammatory lipid mediators in asthma and other inflammatory diseases. They are generated through the 5-lipoxygenase/LTC4 synthase (LTC4S) pathway and act via at least two distinct G protein-coup more

• Th2‐type innate immune responses mediated by natural helper cells

  Natural helper (NH) cells are a newly identified innate lymphocyte population that responds to a combination of interleukin (IL)‐2 and either IL‐25 or IL‐33 to produce large amounts of T helper cell type 2 (Th2) cytokines. NH cells have been identified in fat‐associated lymphoid clusters (FALCs), more

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