Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 373-378 , November 2000

Respiratory tract pathology and cytokine imbalance in clinically healthy children chronically and sequentially exposed to air pollutants

  • L. Calderón-Garcidue~nas

      Affiliations

    • Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC and Instituto Nacional de Pediatria, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • R.B. Devlin

      Affiliations

    • National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
    • ,
  • F.J. Miller

      Affiliations

    • Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

Received 20 December 1999 ,Accepted 6 January 2000.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1070

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 373-378 , November 2000

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