Air pollution, ultrafine particles, and your brain: are combustion nanoparticle emissions and engineered nanoparticles causing preventable fatal neurodegenerative …

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, A Ayala - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) pollution damages the human brain. Fossil fuel burning
for transportation energy accounts for a significant fraction of urban air and climate pollution …

Controlled human exposure to diesel exhaust: results illuminate health effects of traffic-related air pollution and inform future directions

E Long, C Carlsten - Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2022 - Springer
Air pollution is an issue of increasing interest due to its globally relevant impacts on
morbidity and mortality. Controlled human exposure (CHE) studies are often employed to …

Association between air pollutants and development of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MY Wu, WC Lo, CT Chao, MS Wu… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The association between incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) or end-stage
renal disease (ESRD) and exposure to outdoor air pollution is under debate. We aimed to …

Quantitative source tracking of heavy metals contained in urban road deposited sediments

N Hong, Y Guan, B Yang, J Zhong, P Zhu, YS Ok… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Source tracking for heavy metals contained in road deposited sediments (RDS) is essential
for pollution control and human health risk management. Previous studies on tracking …

[PDF][PDF] Prenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and adult behavior in males

CL Block, O Eroglu, SD Mague, CJ Smith, AM Ceasrine… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Gestational exposure to environmental toxins and socioeconomic stressors is
epidemiologically linked to neurodevelopmental disorders with strong male bias, such as …

[HTML][HTML] High throughput data-based, toxicity pathway-oriented development of a quantitative adverse outcome pathway network linking AHR activation to lung …

Y Jin, G Qi, Y Shou, D Li, Y Liu, H Guan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The quantitative adverse outcome pathway (qAOP) is proposed to inform dose-responses at
multiple biological levels for the purpose of toxicity prediction. So far, qAOP models …

A systematic review of the health effects associated with the inhalation of particle-filtered and whole diesel exhaust

CA Weitekamp, LB Kerr, L Dishaw, J Nichols… - Inhalation …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Diesel exhaust is a complex mixture comprised of gases and particulate matter
and is a contributor to ambient air pollution. To reduce health risks, recent changes in diesel …

Estimation of exposure and premature mortality from near-roadway fine particulate matter concentrations emitted by heavy-duty diesel trucks in Beijing

B Zhang, S Cheng, F Lu, M Lei - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Traffic exhaust is a main source of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in cities. Heavy-duty
diesel trucks (HDDTs), the primary mode of freight transport, contribute significantly to PM …

Clean production of biofuel from waste cooking oil to reduce emissions, fuel cost, and respiratory disease hospitalizations

JCC Santana, AC Miranda, L Souza, CLK Yamamura… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Renewable energies are cleaner forms of energy, and their use, has intensified in recent
decades. Thus, this work presents a proposal for reducing the emissions, fuel cost, and …

[HTML][HTML] Transport-related airborne nanoparticles: Sources, different aerosol modes, and their toxicity

I Vouitsis, J Portugal, A Kontses, HL Karlsson… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle emissions from transport are of considerable importance because of their
dominance in terms of particle number concentration in most urban atmospheres …