Pediatric asthma and in vivo phagocytosis of black carbon air pollution by airway macrophages

R. Brugha, N. Mushtaq, I. Dundas, M. Sanak, J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom; Krakow, Poland)

Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Monitoring asthma: genes, cells and molecules
Session: Monitoring asthma: genes, cells and molecules
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 1123
Disease area: Airway diseases, Paediatric lung diseases

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