Sentence examples for decrements in lung function from inspiring English sources

Isolated exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) or allergen can cause decrements in lung function that are impacted by the presence of genetic variants in the glutathione-S-transferase (GST) family but the effect of GST interactions with DE-allergen co-exposure on lung function is unknown.

Although antibiotic treatment cleared the bacterial infection by 3 days, decrements in lung function and pleural rind formation occurred even after clearance of viable organisms.

Although significant decrements in lung function were observed at 3 days in infected WT mice, changes in lung volumes did not reach significance, likely attributable to modest changes in pleural organization that were found at that time.

Studies suggest that airway sensitivity to contractile agonists is dependent on the presence of neutrophilia [6]; however, patients that develop the greatest decrements in lung function following ozone exposure do not necessarily correlate with the highest levels of neutrophilic inflammation [7], [8], [9], [10] suggesting a neutrophil independent mechanism that promotes AHR.

Recently, Illi and coworkers found that BHR at 7 years of age was a significant predictor of baseline lung function at ages 7, 10, and 13 years, and suggested that BHR was the intermediate step in the causal pathway linking early-life sensitization to decrements in lung function at school age [26].

These authors noted further decrements in lung function for obese individuals who also had AHR.

There is ample evidence that short-term ozone exposure is associated with decrements in lung functions, increased respiratory symptoms, and lung inflammation [ 8].

We have previously shown that vitamin C and E supplementation was effective in blunting the decrements in lung functions but not the inflammatory responses to ozone in healthy adults (Samet et al. 2001).

We did not measure exposures to NO2 or ozone, which also may be responsible for decrement in lung function.

There was no evidence of any decrement in lung function attributable to unflued gas heater exposure when the analysis was restricted in this way.

BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; CFU, colony-forming units Pulmonary overexpression of IκBα attenuated acute pneumonia-induced lung injury, decreasing the severity of the decrement in lung function, whereas also decreasing the inflammatory response.