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SUBMITTER: Wang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6257984 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Liping L Cheng Haoxiang H Wang Dongbin D Zhao Bo B Zhang Jushan J Cheng Long L Yao Pengfei P Di Narzo Antonio A Shen Yuan Y Yu Jing J Li Yuanyuan Y Xu Shunqing S Chen Jia J Fan Lihong L Lu Jianwei J Jiang Jingkun J Zhou Yang Y Wang Changhui C Zhang Zhongyang Z Hao Ke K
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety 20181018
<h4>Background</h4>Ambient particulate matter (PM) exposure has been associated with respiratory function decline in epidemiological studies. We hypothesize that a possible underlying mechanism is the perturbation of airway microbiome by PM exposure.<h4>Methods</h4>During October 2016-October 2017, on two human cohorts (n = 115 in total) in Shanghai China, we systematically collected three categories of data: (1) respiratory functions, (2) airway microbiome from sputum, and (3) PM<sub>2.5</sub> ...[more]