LSUHSC shows for first time infant inhalation of ultrafine air pollution linked to adult lung disease
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 11:35
in Health & Medicine
New Orleans, LA -- Stephania Cormier, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has shown for the first time that early exposure to environmentally persistent free radicals (present in airborne ultrafine particulate matter) affects long-term lung function.