These complexes are capable of causing pulmonary and peripheral changes in responses of the humoral and cell-mediated system. Hersey et al18 and Costabel et al19 suggested that the antigen-antibody complexes may induce localized alterations of the immune status of the saliva and the bronchoalveolar...
American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association: Inter-city cost of living index. Inter-city cost of living index. Edited by: American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association. 2001-2006, Arlington, VA: American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association Google Scholar Cook PJ, Moore MJ: ...
This paper combines new, author-collected tax data with data both from the American Chamberof Commerce Researchers Association (ACCRA) cost of living index (COLI) and from the TaxBurden on Tobacco (TBT) to measure the relative effects of city, county and state excisecigarette taxation on ...
during a period when they explored manufacturing a biodegradable filter [12]. In 1991, scientists hired by British American Tobacco tested how cigarette filters degraded under various environmental conditions and found that cigarette butts left on a city pavement showed no indication of degrading over ...
The total cost of smoking, including health care costs and productivity loss, escalated seven-fold as a direct consequence of increasing number of smokers in the population. The upward trend in cigarette consumption in China turned around only recently in 2015 when China’s Ministry of Finance ...
Saliva collection is minimally invasive, simple, and cost-effective, making it an attractive technique in omics and promising for identifying potential biomarkers in the oral mucosa and oral microbiota [8,9,10]. The World Health Organization recognizes the carcinogenic potential of certain substances ...