Ex vivo innate responses to particulate matter from livestock farms in asthma patients and healthy individuals

• Main Authors: Linsey E. S. de Groot (Author), Dingyu Liu (Author), Barbara S. Dierdorp (Author), Niki Fens (Author), Marianne A. van de Pol (Author), Peter J. Sterk (Author), Wim Kulik (Author), Miriam E. Gerlofs-Nijland (Author), Flemming R. Cassee (Author), Elena Pinelli (Author), René Lutter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Asthma patients suffer from periodic acute worsening of symptoms (i.e. loss of asthma control or exacerbations), triggered by a variety of exogenous stimuli. With the growing awareness that air pollutants impact respiratory diseases, we investigated whether particulate matter (PM...