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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21961642

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Epidemiological studies have reported associations of ambient particulate air pollution, especially particulate matter (PM) less than 10 µm with exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In an in vivo model, we have tested the toxicity of urban airborne particles collected during spring, summer, and winter seasons in four cities (Amsterdam, Lodz, Oslo, and Rome) spread across Europe. The seasonal differences in inflammatory responses were striking, and almost all the study parameters were affected by PM. Coarse fractions of the urban particle samples were less potent per unit mass than the fine fractions in increasing cytokine [macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-2 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α] levels and in reducing Clara-cell secretory protein (CC16) levels. This study shows that PM collected at 4 contrasting sites across Europe and during different seasons have differences in toxic potency. These differences were even more prominent between the fine and coarse fractions of the PM.


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Capillary Permeability/drug effects , Cities , Environmental Exposure , Particulate Matter/toxicity , Pneumonia/chemically induced , Seasons , Analysis of Variance , Animals , Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/chemistry , Chemokine CXCL2/metabolism , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Europe , Immunohistochemistry , L-Lactate Dehydrogenase/analysis , Male , Particle Size , Rats , Spectrophotometry , Toxicity Tests , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism
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