Aeroparticles, composition, and lung diseases

CI Falcon-Rodriguez, AR Osornio-Vargas… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Urban air pollution is a serious worldwide problem due to its impact on human health. In the
past 60 years, growing evidence established a correlation between exposure to air …

Mechanistic insight into the impact of nanomaterials on asthma and allergic airway disease

K Meldrum, C Guo, EL Marczylo, TW Gant… - Particle and Fibre …, 2017 - Springer
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease known for its high susceptibility to environmental
exposure. Inadvertent inhalation of engineered or incidental nanomaterials is a concern for …

Progressive severe lung injury by zinc oxide nanoparticles; the role of Zn2+ dissolution inside lysosomes

WS Cho, R Duffin, SEM Howie, CJ Scotton… - Particle and fibre …, 2011 - Springer
Background Large production volumes of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONP) might be
anticipated to pose risks, of accidental inhalation in occupational and even in consumer …

PM2.5-induced oxidative stress increases intercellular adhesion molecule-1 expression in lung epithelial cells through the IL-6/AKT/STAT3/NF-κB-dependent …

CW Liu, TL Lee, YC Chen, CJ Liang, SH Wang… - Particle and fibre …, 2018 - Springer
Background Epidemiological studies have shown that ambient air pollution is closely
associated with increased respiratory inflammation and decreased lung function. Particulate …

Differential effects of sphingosine 1–phosphate receptors on airway and vascular barrier function in the murine lung

S Sammani, L Moreno-Vinasco… - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
The therapeutic options for ameliorating the profound vascular permeability, alveolar
flooding, and organ dysfunction that accompanies acute inflammatory lung injury (ALI) …

Single-walled vs. multi-walled carbon nanotubes: influence of physico-chemical properties on toxicogenomics responses in mouse lungs

SA Solorio-Rodriguez, A Williams, SS Poulsen… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)
are nanomaterials with one or multiple layers of carbon sheets. While it is suggested that …

Health risk assessment for air pollutants: alterations in lung and cardiac gene expression in mice exposed to Milano winter fine particulate matter (PM2. 5)

G Sancini, F Farina, C Battaglia, I Cifola, E Mangano… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Oxidative stress, pulmonary and systemic inflammation, endothelial cell dysfunction,
atherosclerosis and cardiac autonomic dysfunction have been linked to urban particulate …

PM2.5 impairs macrophage functions to exacerbate pneumococcus-induced pulmonary pathogenesis

YW Chen, MZ Huang, CL Chen, CY Kuo… - Particle and fibre …, 2020 - Springer
Background Pneumococcus is one of the most common human airway pathogens that
causes life-threatening infections. Ambient fine particulate matter (PM) with aerodynamic …

Particulate matter air pollution disrupts endothelial cell barrier via calpain-mediated tight junction protein degradation

T Wang, L Wang, L Moreno-Vinasco, GD Lang… - Particle and fibre …, 2012 - Springer
Background Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is a significant risk factor for increased
cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. The mechanism of PM-mediated pathophysiology …

Particulate matter disrupts human lung endothelial barrier integrity via ROS-and p38 MAPK–dependent pathways

T Wang, ET Chiang, L Moreno-Vinasco… - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
Epidemiologic studies have linked exposure to airborne pollutant particulate matter (PM)
with increased cardiopulmonary mortality and morbidity. The mechanisms of PM-mediated …