Effects of air pollution on pulmonary blood vessels

Zaiats, L.M.

Problemy Tuberkuleza 3: 50-52

1995


ISSN/ISBN: 0032-9533
PMID: 7617639
Document Number: 442957
The experiments on white rats provided histological and electron-microscopic evidence on the damage which may be done to pulmonary vessels by the chemicals present in polluted atmospheric air. There appeared impairment of vascular permeability and perivascular edema late in the experiment course (within 3 months). Alveolar capillaries proved most sensitive to air pollution.

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