… We describe the events triggered by a sub-lethal concentration of airborne particulate
matter (PM 10 ) in A549 cells, which include the formation DNA double-strand breaks, γH2A.X …

… Cell membrane lysis and mitochondrial ultrastructural disruption appeared to be the main …
2.5 on A549 cells. Concomitantly to the adverse effects observed in terms of cell mortality and …

… cells were maintained at 37 C, in a humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO 2 . All the A549
cells … of DNA adduct pattern, on the other hand, derived from the same initial cell culture. …

… To avoid phenotypic changes affecting responsiveness to chemicals, all the A549 cells we
used in the study of the cytotoxicity, on the one hand, and in the study of mRNA expression of …

… From these, BEAS2B and A549 are the most frequently used … cell lines, we considered the
A549 cell line to be a more suitable model for the study of EMT, once that is a transformed cell …

… effects associated with exposure to particulate matter (PM) are related … cellular responses
including: the induction of antioxidant defenses, proinflammatory responses, and ultimately cell …

… in cells, and the determination of extracellular lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in cell-…
Thereafter, we looked for PM-induced oxidative damage in A549 cells through the production …

… In this study, apoptotic cell death was examined after A549 cells were exposed to 10 μg/mL
of tPM 10 , iPM 10 , or PM 10 for 24h. As shown in Figure 5, all three preparations, …

… up-regulated in A549 cells after treated with oTRP, as well as in A549 cells treated with NQ.
However, AQ exposure could not increase the levels of these two genes in A549 cells. The …

… Cytokines measured in this study included IL-8 for A549 cells and TNF-α for J774A.1 cells
and the results are shown in Figure 4. No significant difference between the control (C) and …