Stimulation of human and rat alveolar macrophages by urban air particulates: effects on oxidant radical generation and cytokine production

S Becker, JM Soukup, MI Gilmour, RB Devlin - Toxicology and applied …, 1996 - Elsevier
… TNF and IL-6 production by human alveolar macrophages exposed to various urban air
has demonstrated that human endotoxin levels fluctuate with particle levels in the urban air. …

Response of human alveolar macrophages to ultrafine, fine, and coarse urban air pollution particles

S Becker, JM Soukup, C Sioutas… - Experimental lung …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
… of air pollution particles in stimulating inflammation has been emphasized both in animal
models and in human … , and coarse particles, collected simultaneously from 2 urban areas in the …

Urban Air Pollution Particulates Suppress Human T-Cell Responses to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

O Ibironke, C Carranza, S Sarkar, M Torres… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… from urban PM 2.5 in its chemical and particulate … to urban air pollution PM 2.5 alters T-cell
responses to M.tb by (1) decreasing M.tb-induced surface expression of early T cell activation

Exposure to urban air particulates alters the macrophage-mediated inflammatory response to respiratory viral infection

S Becker, JM Soukup - … Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
… In conclusion, it appears that particles in outdoor air alter the ability of AM to take up virus and
to … Stimulation of human and rat alveolar macrophages by urban air particulates: effects on …

Pro‐inflammatory effects of Dunkerque city air pollution particulate matter 2.5 in human epithelial lung cells (L132) in culture

Z Dagher, G Garçon, P Gosset, F Ledoux… - Journal of Applied …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… inherent characteristics of the soluble and/or insoluble fraction of urban air PM are also crucial
for … Stimulation of human and rat alveolar macrophages by urban air particulates: effect on …

Urban particulate matter–activated human dendritic cells induce the expansion of potent inflammatory Th1, Th2, and Th17 effector cells

NC Matthews, PE Pfeffer, EH Mann… - American Journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
… through direct and indirect activation of airway dendritic cells (… exhaust particulate, which
makes up a large part of urban air … (8) In addition, such particulates have the potential to bind …

Inflammatory mediators induced by coarse (PM2. 5–10) and fine (PM2. 5) urban air particles in RAW 264.7 cells

R Pozzi, B De Berardis, L Paoletti, C Guastadisegni - Toxicology, 2003 - Elsevier
urban air particles-stimulated TNFα production decreased after 24 h of incubation while
carbon black-stimulated … Carbon black was consistently less effective than the urban particles, …

Ultrafine particles in urban ambient air and their health perspectives

S Kumar, MK Verma, AK Srivastava - Reviews on environmental …, 2013 - degruyter.com
… colony-stimulating factor in human bronchial … particles, diesel exhaust particles and urban
air particulates and their extracts on a human alveoli epithelial cell line (A549) and a human

Dunkerque City air pollution particulate matter-induced cytotoxicity, oxidative stress and inflammation in human epithelial lung cells (L132) in culture

G Garçon, Z Dagher, F Zerimech, F Ledoux, D Courcot… - Toxicology in vitro, 2006 - Elsevier
… , but also in the activation of cell signaling pathways leading thereby to the activation of specific
… method, and the cytotoxicity of the urban ambient air particles was evaluated through the …

Different immunomodulatory effects associated with sub-micrometer particles in ambient air from rural, urban and industrial areas

G Wichmann, U Franck, O Herbarth, M Rehwagen… - Toxicology, 2009 - Elsevier
particles (PM 0.5 ), which were collected from ambient air in spatially proximal areas that were
differentially affected by urban or industrial emissions, on human … PHA-stimulated human