Health

Vol.5 No.10B(2013), Paper ID 38729, 15 pages

DOI:10.4236/health.2013.510A2003

 

African Dust Storms Reaching Puerto Rican Coast Stimulate the Secretion of IL-6 and IL-8 and Cause Cytotoxicity to Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (BEAS-2B)

 

Rosa I. Rodríguez-Cotto, Mario G. Ortiz-Martínez, Evasomary Rivera-Ramírez, Loyda B. Méndez, Julio C. Dávila, Braulio D. Jiménez-Vélez

 

Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico;Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico Science and Technology School, Eastern University, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico;Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Department of Biochemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico Center for Environmental and Toxicological Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Copyright © 2013 Rosa I. Rodríguez-Cotto, Mario G. Ortiz-Martínez, Evasomary Rivera-Ramírez, Loyda B. Méndez, Julio C. Dávila, Braulio D. Jiménez-Vélez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Rodríguez-Cotto, R. , Ortiz-Martínez, M. , Rivera-Ramírez, E. , Méndez, L. , Dávila, J. and Jiménez-Vélez, B. (2013) African Dust Storms Reaching Puerto Rican Coast Stimulate the Secretion of IL-6 and IL-8 and Cause Cytotoxicity to Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (BEAS-2B). Health, 5, 14-28. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.510A2003.

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