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
… chemical speciation, which can be important for health effects. The exponent n that best fits
the variation of elemental concentration with size can be used to determine the mechanism of …

Adipose cell size: importance in health and disease

KG Stenkula… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
size and cellular function as well as metabolic disease and concluded that the size of the
adipocyte is an important … In the present review, we have described the size variation of small …

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
… A primary goal of current research on particle-induced health effects is to reveal the critical
… Hence, the importance of size and surface area does not override the importance of particle …

Why the study of human size is important

TT Samaras - Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling. New …, 2007 - books.google.com
… Yet, the ramifications of increasing human size are enormous in terms of health, human
performance, longevity, social relations, resource needs, pollution and economic costs. While …

Human platelet size, shape, and related functions in health and disease.

MM Frojmovic, JG Milton - Physiological reviews, 1982 - journals.physiology.org
… of measurements of platelet size and shape for … important implications for both interpreting
the functional expressions of platelets and experimental measurements of platelet size

Variability in fine structures of noncellulosic cell wall polysaccharides from cereal grains: potential importance in human health and nutrition

HM Collins, RA Burton, DL Topping, ML Liao… - Cereal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… The effectiveness of noncellulosic cell wall polysaccharides in improving health outcomes is
… to the soluble fiber component of human diets. The molecular size, solubility, and viscosity …

[HTML][HTML] Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials: elements of a screening strategy

G Oberdörster, A Maynard, K Donaldson… - Particle and fibre …, 2005 - Springer
… Physicochemical properties that may be important in understanding the toxic effects of
test materials include particle size and size distribution, agglomeration state, shape, crystal …

[HTML][HTML] Review on iron and its importance for human health

N Abbaspour, R Hurrell, R Kelishadi - Journal of research in …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is well-known that deficiency or over exposure to various elements has noticeable effects
on human health. The effect of an element is determined by several characteristics, including …

Health, integrity, and biological assessment: The importance of measuring whole things

JR Karr - … : integrating environment, conservation, and health, 2000 - books.google.com
… seen challenges to human health has been … size and temperature, altitude Sites with little
or no human influence Empirically defined measures; dose—response graphs plotting human