Article
Acids Can Promote the Onset and Multimorbidity of Allergic and Nonallergic Airway Diseases
2019-06-05
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory allergic and nonallergic respiratory pathologies often co-exist. The root cause is not clear. This paper demonstrates that it is ascribable to protons (H+) released into cells by exogenous and endogenous acids. The hypothesis of acids as the common cause stems from two considerations: a) it has long been known that exogenous acids present in air pollutants can induce the irritation of epithelial surfa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3f330380-134f-5c0f-af6e-da58c5cc6733
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201906.0040.v1
