Particulate matter air pollution and respiratory impact on humans and animals

C Losacco, A Perillo - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018 - Springer
Air pollution is now fully acknowledged to be a public health problem and a social issue.
Particulate matter (PM) concentration has been linked with several clinical manifestations of …

Airborne particulate matter and human health: toxicological assessment and importance of size and composition of particles for oxidative damage and carcinogenic …

A Valavanidis, K Fiotakis… - Journal of Environmental …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Air pollution has been considered a hazard to human health. In the past decades, many
studies highlighted the role of ambient airborne particulate matter (PM) as an important …

The physiological effects of air pollution: particulate matter, physiology and disease

JT Pryor, LO Cowley, SE Simonds - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nine out of 10 people breathe air that does not meet World Health Organization pollution
limits. Air pollutants include gasses and particulate matter and collectively are responsible …

[HTML][HTML] Respiratory health effects of exposure to ambient particulate matter and bioaerosols

SM Mack, AK Madl, KE Pinkerton - Comprehensive physiology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Researchers have been studying the respiratory health effects of ambient air pollution for
more than 70 years. While air pollution as a whole can include gaseous, solid, and liquid …

Inflammatory effects of particulate matter air pollution

RD Arias-Pérez, NA Taborda, DM Gómez… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Air pollution is an important cause of non-communicable diseases globally with particulate
matter (PM) as one of the main air pollutants. PM is composed of microscopic particles that …

Health outcomes of exposure to biological and chemical components of inhalable and respirable particulate matter

OM Morakinyo, MI Mokgobu, MS Mukhola… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Particulate matter (PM) is a key indicator of air pollution and a significant risk factor for
adverse health outcomes in humans. PM is not a self-contained pollutant but a mixture of …

Aeroparticles, composition, and lung diseases

CI Falcon-Rodriguez, AR Osornio-Vargas… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Urban air pollution is a serious worldwide problem due to its impact on human health. In the
past 60 years, growing evidence established a correlation between exposure to air …

A review on the human health impact of airborne particulate matter

KH Kim, E Kabir, S Kabir - Environment international, 2015 - Elsevier
Particulate matter (PM) is a key indicator of air pollution brought into the air by a variety of
natural and human activities. As it can be suspended over long time and travel over long …

[PDF][PDF] The role of reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in mediating particulate matter injury

T Xia, M Kovochich, A Nel - Clin Occup Environ Med, 2006 - academia.edu
Several plausible mechanisms have been proposed to explain the adverse health effects of
particulate matter (PM) in polluted ambient air [1]. To date, experimental support has been …

Health effects and time course of particulate matter on the cardiopulmonary system in rats with lung inflammation

MMW Ulrich, GM Alink, P Kumarathasan… - Journal of Toxicology …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Recent epidemiological studies associate health effects and particulate matter in ambient
air. Exacerbation of the particle-induced inflammation can be a mechanism responsible for …