Free Radical Link Suggested Between Pollution And Asthma

Saturday, May 3, 2008 - 07:28 in Health & Medicine

Free radical pollution in the air could be a cause of asthma. Chemists have discovered that the atmospheric nitrate radical irreversibly damages amino acids, which are the building blocks for proteins in the human body. This, they suggest, could be a cause of some respiratory diseases.

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