Environmental endotoxin exposure and asthma

Environmental endotoxin is associated with a variety of respiratory diseases that arise in occupational, agricultural, and domestic settings. Endotoxin refers to LPS or lipooligosaccharide molecules arising from the outer cell wall of gram-negative bacteria (GNB) that function as microbial-associated molecular patterns interacting with pattern recognition receptors to induce inflammation leading to asthma and asthma-like syndromes. It has long...