Susceptibility to Inhaled PollutantsMark J. Utell, Robert Frank |
Contents
An Overview | 3 |
The Influence of Responses in Susceptible Populations in Establishing Standards for Ambient Air Pollutants | 6 |
Species and Individual Variations in Sensitivity to Lung Injury | 22 |
The Potential Use of Immunological Markers in Determining Individuals Susceptible to Inhaled Pollutants | 32 |
Mechanisms of Airway Hyperresponsiveness | 47 |
Overview on Characterizing Study Groups and Their Responses | 55 |
Issues in the Selection of Subjects for Clinical and Epidemiological Studies of Asthma | 57 |
The Distribution of Airways Responsiveness in Populations | 68 |
Childhood Factors Related Potentially to Respiratory Health in Adulthood | 141 |
Susceptibility of Young and Aging Lungs to Inhaled Pollutants | 148 |
Nutritional Status and Oxidants | 162 |
Evaluating Relationships Among Personal Risk Factors Ambient Oxidant Exposure and Chronic Respiratory Illness | 174 |
Respiratory Infection and Oxidants | 182 |
A Selected Review | 195 |
A Review | 207 |
Ozone and Asthma | 214 |
Individual Variability in the Magnitude of Acute Respiratory Responses to Ozone Exposure | 75 |
An Overview | 90 |
Upper Airway Scrubbing at Rest and Exercise | 100 |
Factors Governing Gas Transport in the Lower Airways | 111 |
Aerosol Boluses | 127 |
A Review of the Evidence | 218 |
Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants | 224 |
Author Index | 232 |
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Page 1 - Included among those persons whose health should be protected by the ambient standard are particularly sensitive citizens such as bronchial asthmatics and emphysematics who in the normal course of daily activity are exposed to the ambient environment...