This Is Your Brain on Cars?Oh, and Your Lungs and Heart and Gut, Too

Gerontologists in a laboratory at the University of Southern California exposed a group of mice to the same atmospheric conditions that humans encounter when driving along the freeway. Horrifyingly, they discovered that the mice?s brains showed the kind of swelling and inflammation associated with diseases such as Alzheimer?s. The researchers didn?t super-dose to get these [...]

Source: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/05/17/this-is-your-brain-on-cars%E2%80%94oh-and-your-lungs-and-heart-and-gut-too/

Willi Krakau Rudolf Krause Robert Kubica Jim Hall