Smoking affects allergy-relevant stem cells
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 14:01
in Health & Medicine
Environmental contaminants, such as smoking, are harmful to the human organism in relation to the occurrence of allergies. Until now, researchers had never investigated whether and to what extent environmental contaminants also affect allergy-relevant stem cells. For the first time, researchers have found evidence that smoking affects the development of peripheral allergy-relevant stem cells in the blood.