Choking link
for years, scientists have implicated respiratory problems with pollution particles less that 10 microns in diameter, but to what extent they affect the respiratory system was not known. Now, a study proves that these particulate matters penetrate very deep into the lungs of even healthy children. The study was conducted by researchers of the Leicester Children's Institute for Lung Health, University of Leicester, the uk.
H J Bunn, D Dinsdale, T Smith and J Grigg, the researchers, studied the size and composition of particles within the lungs of people not suffering from any respiratory disease. "We wanted to know for certain whether these particles are really able to enter the lung and cells, thereby, causing respiratory diseases,' says Grigg. For this purpose, they scrutinised alveolar macrophages (am)
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