Health and pollution control professionals and the general public need to develop a more
complete understanding of the health effects of ozone (O3) because: 1) we have been …

The prevalence of allergic respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma has increased in
recent years, especially in industrialized countries. A change in the genetic predisposition is …

Epidemiological literatures show an association between air pollution and ischemic stroke,
and effective pollutants may include SO2, NOx, O3, CO, and particulates. However, existing …

Ozone is a powerful oxidant and toxic air pollutant. As a gaseous pollutant, its primary target
tissue is the lung and breathing slightly elevated concentrations of ozone results in a range …

Ambient air ozone (O 3) is generated photochemically from oxides of nitrogen and volatile
hydrocarbons. Inhaled O 3 causes remarkably reversible acute lung function changes and …

Both the prevalence and severity of respiratory allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma
have increased in recent years. Among the factors implicated in this “epidemic” are indoor …

Over the past three or four decades, there have been important advances in the
understanding of the actions, exposure-response characteristics, and mechanisms of action …

In his 1954 Harvey lecture on the functions of the lung, Comroe divided pulmonary reflexes
into regulatory and defensive or protective (18). Char acteristically, regulatory reflexes are …

To compare the responses of asthmatic and normal subjects to high effective doses of
ozone, nine asthmatic and nine normal subjects underwent two randomly assigned 2-h …

Chemical Sensitivity is the first major scientific book series on chemical sensitivity, an
increasingly important worldwide health problem. This four-volume series features results …