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Article: Airborne substance makes asthmatics more sensitive to house dust mites.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- December 31, 2003
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2003 DEC 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to endotoxin, a bacterial substance found commonly in outdoor and indoor air, makes mite-allergic asthmatics more sensitive to house dust and may place them at increased risk of asthma attack.
The new research findings from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine are consistent with previous UNC studies showing exposure to ozone makes asthmatics more sensitive to allergens, the environmental triggers of allergic reactions. Neither ozone nor endotoxin are allergens; however, they can cause portions of the respiratory tract to become inflamed.
The study is published in the ...