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Article: Short-term smoke exposure attenuates ovalbumin-induced airway inflammation.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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2004 AUG 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Short-term smoke exposure attenuates ovalbumin-induced airway inflammation.
According to a study from the Netherlands, "Little is known about effects of smoking on airway inflammation in asthma. We tested the hypothesis that smoking enhances established airway inflammation in a mouse model of allergic asthma."
"C57Bl/6j mice were sensitized to ovalbumin (OVA) and challenged with OVA (OVA-mice) or sham-sensitized to phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and challenged with PBS aerosols (PBS-mice) for 7 weeks," wrote B.N. Melgert and coworkers.
"At 4 weeks," investigators reported, "mice were additionally ...