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… - … Science and Health, Part …, 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 …

Combustion aerosols: factors governing their size and composition and implications to human health

JAS Lighty, JM Veranth, AF Sarofim - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
… Roadmap to the particle formation and health effects topics discussed in this review. … These
studies provide an important link between particle formation in combustion and human health

Fine particles and human health—a review of epidemiological studies

N Englert - Toxicology letters, 2004 - Elsevier
… by which particles influence human health are only poorly understood. Under discussion
is the role of particle size and particle composition. The risk assessment of coarse particles (ie …

Health effects of airborne particles in relation to composition, size and source

FJ Kelly, JC Fussell - 2016 - books.rsc.org
… the findings of epidemiology, controlled human exposure and toxicology studies that used
apportionment methods to relate sources of PM with human health outcomes. Among the 29 …

Importance of size and composition of particles for effects on cells in vitro

PE Schwarze, J Øvrevik, RB Hetland, R Becher… - Inhalation …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… This article summarizes the authors' work on the importance of particle composition and …
crustal-derived particles in experimental systems. These crustal-derived particles may constitute …

Atmospheric aerosols: composition, transformation, climate and health effects

U Pöschl - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… Atmospheric chemistry and physics, the biosphere, the hydrological cycle, climate, and human
health are all strongly influenced by natural and anthropogenic particles in the nanometer …

[PDF][PDF] The role of particle size and chemical composition for health risks of exposure to traffic related aerosols-A review of the current literature

M Sehlstedt, B Forsberg, R Westerholm, C Boman… - Final …, 2007 - researchgate.net
… coarse particles (PM2.5PM10) to carry potential for causing adverse health effects, with smaller
particles … of road traffic related particle emissions and their implications to human health. …

Overview of ultrafine particles and human health

JC Chow, JG Watson - WIT Transactions on Ecology and the …, 2006 - witpress.com
… easily generated for exposure, inhalation, and toxicological studies to determine their
potential adverse effects on human health. Keywords: ultrafine, nanoparticles, PM, health effects. …

Physical and chemical properties of airborne nanoscale particles and how to measure the impact on human health

K Siegmann, L Scherrer, HC Siegmann - Journal of Molecular Structure …, 1998 - Elsevier
… In particular, particles from diesel … composition or of particle size that might occur in the
atmosphere are detectable. As an example of an application, we studied the nanoscale particles

Particle deposition in the human lung: Health implications of particulate matter from different sources

Q Deng, L Deng, Y Miao, X Guo, Y Li - Environmental research, 2019 - Elsevier
… they assumed the same chemical composition for all particle sizes. In this work, we use bulk
density to express the difference in the chemical composition of different particles, and then …