The Effect of Air Pollution on the Immune System
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DOI

10.26689/jcnr.v4i4.1346

Submitted : 2020-06-28
Accepted : 2020-07-13
Published : 2020-07-28

Abstract

Air pollution has become a serious problem, the pollutant mainly came from industrial and vehicle exhaustion will harm people’s bodies to a different extent, cause lots of diseases like asthma, and cardiovascular disease. The system protects us are also be damaged by pollutant entering the tissue barrier, harm to immune cells and regulate cytokine secretion. This essay is mainly focused on the particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide effect on the immune system from the innate immunity to the acquired immunity, and how the immune system defense.