Environmental Pollutants: Effects on the Immune System and Resistance to Infectious Disease
Environmental Pollutants: Effects on the Immune System and Resistance to Infectious Disease
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环境污染物:对免疫系统和传染病抵抗力的影响
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1981
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L. D. Caren
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L. D. Caren
The immune system is a complex of interrelated reactions, which protects animals from invasion by foreign substances. Many environmental substances, such as metals, organic pesticides, and gaseous pollutants, perturb the immune response and increase susceptibility to infectious disease. There is a need for a large number of systematic studies. They should include long-term, low dose experiments on large numbers of animals, studies of impaired resistance to infection using a greater variety of infectious agents, studies of the effects of fetal and neonatal pollution exposure, and studies of the mechanism of impaired resistance once an effect is observed. 26 references reviewed.