… that a greater surface area ofmetal might mediate greater toxicity to the lungs. Metals are a
… of the potential of any particle sample to cause lung disease. For some industrial scenarios …

… in the innate immune systems and acute lung injury (ALI). Dendritic … exposed to micro and/or
nanometer-sized irritants. As such, … ultrafine particles are known to initiate direct injury to the …

… , particles are divided into coarse, fine, and ultrafine, ranging from nanometers (nm) to microns
(μm), being the PM 10 particles … of particles could affect the phagocytic capacity mediated …

… of lung injury and inflammation caused by NiO was correlated to surface area of the administered
particles in this study; the ultrafine particle … rate of cell-mediated particle clearance with …

… outcomes attributed to pulmonary NP exposure and what is known about indirect pathological
mediators released from the lung into the … concentrated ambient ultrafine particulates …

… are known to increase pulmonary disease risk. Biological … induction is the IL-17-mediated
regulation of myeloid-derived … in the range of a few hundred nanometers; however, there have …

… and the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease lost statistical significance after
… cell death, has been found to be mediated by particles and cause adverse health effects in …

… inflammation in animal models of ultrafine particle–mediated lung disease (10) by … lung
injury (12), they fail to resolve inflammation because ultrafine particles persist in the lungs …

… size of ambient particles can vary from nanometers to tens of … and ultrafine particles per unit
mass of the total particulate matter.… can contribute to the local pulmonary injury as well as the …

… The importance of SP-B in lung function was defined by the study of a lethal neonatal
respiratory disease – new-born respiratory distress syndrome.Experiments with transgenic SP-B …