People near freeways are exposed to 30 times the concentration of dangerous particles
...e number of ultrafine particles downwind near both freeways was approximately 25 to 30 times greater than the ...city with 85 million vehicle-miles traveled on its freeways on an average day. "The objectives of the study include providing scientists with a way to predict e...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...sources of vehicle exhaust from heavily trafficked freeways accelerate lung conditions including asthma. Kleinman uses the nation's most busy freeway interchange, located just south of downtown Los Angeles, for his tests, where he places mice already exposed to asthma-like allergens in specially developed exp......the lymphatic system that functions as achannel of freeways throughout the body. "Sentinel lymph nodes are a strong marker for predicting a patient's outcomes inregards to disease recurrence and death due to advanced melanoma," says StanleyP.L. Leong, MD, FACS, UCSF professor of surgery and director of the Se...