Until the middle of the present century, urban populations in the United Kingdom suffered
major health problems from air pollution, due principally to the burning of coal for domestic …

Summer smog is a cocktail of volatile hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide, and
carbon monoxide emitted from road vehicles, industry, and power stations. When acted on …

The toxicity of ozone, the major component of photochemical smog, is related to its powerful
oxidising ability, and many of its deleterious effects are mediated through free radical …

Ozone is a powerful oxidant and toxic air pollutant. As a gaseous pollutant, its primary target
tissue is the lung and breathing slightly elevated concentrations of ozone results in a range …

Ozone (O 3) is the major oxidant of photochemical smog. Its biological effect is attributed to
its stability to cause oxidation or peroxidation of biomolecules directly and/or via free radical …

The effects of air pollution on health have been recognized for many hundreds of years. In
London, during December 1952, a particularly bad smog, which involved extreme elevations …

Water soluble antioxidant—ascorbate (AA), urate (UA), and reduced glutathione (GSH)—
consumption by ozone (O3) was investigated in a range of pulmonary epithelial lining fluid …

Ozone is one of the most toxic and ubiquitous air pollutants. This review focuses on the toxic
effects of ozone in animals and on the similarities and disimilarities between the toxic effects …

Ozone is so reactive that it can be predicted to be entirely consumed as it passes through
the first layer of tissue it contacts at the lung/air interface. This layer includes the lung lining …

There are a number of good experimental studies showing that exposure by inhalation to
prolonged tropospheric ozone damages the respiratory system and extrapulmonary organs …