What are the effects of chronic vaping on the respiratory immune system? Using a mouse model, the authors showed that vaping decreases respiratory immune responses to viral infection, which could have implications for susceptibility to COVID-19 in people who vape.
Continue ReadingThe sex differences in autoimmune diseases have yet to be clearly understood. A new hypothesis called the pregnancy compensation hypothesis attempts to pull in many factors to better explain why we see these differences between males and females.
Continue ReadingThe relationship between exercise intensity (or volume) and susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) is a rotated J-shaped curve. This means that some regular moderate physical activity decreases the…
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