Particulate Matter

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of studies on the effects of controlled exposure to fine, coarse and ultrafine ambient particulate matter from a single location. 
  • A controlled trial of acute effects of human exposure to traffic particles on pulmonary oxidative stress and heart rate variability. 
  • A longitudinal study of exposure to fine particulate matter during pregnancy, small-for-gestational age births, and birthweight percentile for gestational age in a statewide birth cohort. 
  • A systematic review of evidence for maternal preconception exposure to outdoor air pollution on Children's health. 
  • AHR2 morpholino knockdown reduces the toxicity of total particulate matter to zebrafish embryos. 
  • Activation of EGF receptors mediates pulmonary vasoconstriction induced by residual oil fly ash. 
  • Acute change of lung function to short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants with and without physical activity: A real-world crossover study. 
  • Air Pollution and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Nested Case-Control Study among Members of a Northern California Health Plan. 
  • Air Purifier Intervention to Remove Indoor PM_2.5 in Urban China: A Cost-Effectiveness and Health Inequality Impact Study. 
  • Air pollution and China's ageing society. 
  • Air pollution and mortality in São Paulo, Brazil: Effects of multiple pollutants and analysis of susceptible populations. 
  • Air pollution and respiratory infections: the past, present, and future. 
  • Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US. 
  • Air pollution, residential greenness, and metabolic dysfunction biomarkers: analyses in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Air pollution: clean up our skies. 
  • Air quality impacts and health-benefit valuation of a low-emission technology for rail yard locomotives in Atlanta Georgia. 
  • Airborne Fine Particles and Risk of Hospital Admissions for Understudied Populations: Effects by Urbanicity and Short-Term Cumulative Exposures in 708 U.S. Counties. 
  • All-cause mortality risk associated with long-term exposure to ambient PM2·5 in China: a cohort study. 
  • Ambient PM_2.5 , ozone and mortality in Chinese older adults: A nationwide cohort analysis (2005-2018). 
  • Ambient particulate matter and lung function growth in Chinese children. 
  • Apoptotic and inflammatory effects induced by different particles in human alveolar macrophages. 
  • Are environmental pollution and biodiversity levels associated to the spread and mortality of COVID-19? A four-month global analysis. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessing the effects of ultraviolet radiation, residential greenness and air pollution on vitamin D levels: A longitudinal cohort study in China. 
  • Association Between Bedroom Particulate Matter Filtration and Changes in Airway Pathophysiology in Children With Asthma. 
  • Association between exposure to fine particulate matter and obesity in children: A national representative cross-sectional study in China. 
  • Association between satellite-based estimates of long-term PM2.5 exposure and coronary artery disease. 
  • Association between short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and myocardial injury in the CATHGEN cohort. 
  • Association of PM_2.5 and Its Chemical Compositions with Metabolic Syndrome: A Nationwide Study in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults. 
  • Association of air pollution sources and aldehydes with biomarkers of blood coagulation, pulmonary inflammation, and systemic oxidative stress. 
  • Association of long-term PM2.5 exposure with traditional and novel lipid measures related to cardiovascular disease risk. 
  • Association of physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study. 
  • Associations Between Long-Term Air Pollutant Exposure and 30-Day All-Cause Hospital Readmissions in US Patients With Stroke. 
  • Associations among plasma metabolite levels and short-term exposure to PM2.5 and ozone in a cardiac catheterization cohort. 
  • Associations between Environmental Quality and Mortality in the Contiguous United States, 2000-2005. 
  • Associations between time-weighted personal air pollution exposure and amino acid metabolism in healthy adults. 
  • Associations of ozone exposure with urinary metabolites of arachidonic acid. 
  • Associations of personal exposure to air pollutants with airway mechanics in children with asthma. 
  • Bayesian multinomial probit modeling of daily windows of susceptibility for maternal PM2.5 exposure and congenital heart defects. 
  • Biochemical and pathological effects of fly ash on lung, liver, and blood of rats. 
  • Cardiopulmonary Impact of Particulate Air Pollution in High-Risk Populations: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. 
  • Cardiorespiratory biomarker responses in healthy young adults to drastic air quality changes surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 
  • Cardiovascular effects of traffic-related air pollution: A multi-omics analysis from a randomized, crossover trial. 
  • Cardiovascular outcomes and the physical and chemical properties of metal ions found in particulate matter air pollution: a QICAR study. 
  • Chemical constituents of ambient fine particulate matter and obesity among school-aged children: A representative national study in China. 
  • Children's microenvironmental exposure to PM_2.5 and ozone and the impact of indoor air filtration. 
  • Chronic exposure to air pollution particles increases the risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome: findings from a natural experiment in Beijing. 
  • Coal fly ash induces hepatic and pulmonary cytochrome P-450 and sigma-aminolevulinic acid synthetase in rats. 
  • Combined use of an electrostatic precipitator and a high-efficiency particulate air filter in building ventilation systems: Effects on cardiorespiratory health indicators in healthy adults. 
  • Comment on "Atmospheric particulate matter pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics". 
  • Comparing Effects of FOXO3 and Residing in Urban Areas on Longevity: A Gene-Environment Interaction Study. 
  • Comparison of exposure estimation methods for air pollutants: ambient monitoring data and regional air quality simulation. 
  • Comparison of gene expression profiles induced by coarse, fine, and ultrafine particulate matter. 
  • Comparisons of ultrafine and fine particles in their associations with biomarkers reflecting physiological pathways. 
  • Composition of fine particulate matter and risk of preterm birth: A nationwide birth cohort study in 336 Chinese cities. 
  • Concentrated ambient ultrafine particle exposure induces cardiac changes in young healthy volunteers. 
  • Controlled human exposures to ambient pollutant particles in susceptible populations. 
  • Correlations between water-soluble organic aerosol and water vapor: a synergistic effect from biogenic emissions? 
  • Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures. 
  • Current state of the science: health effects and indoor environmental quality. 
  • Cytotoxicity of inhaled coal fly ash in rats. 
  • Cytotoxicity of intratracheally administered coal fly ash: studies on lipids in the lung of rats. 
  • Cytotoxicity of intratracheally administered coal fly ash: studies on liver and plasma lipids in rats. 
  • Deaths Attributable to Indoor PM_2.5 in Urban China When Outdoor Air Meets 2021 WHO Air Quality Guidelines. 
  • Development of alterations in hamster distal lung following exposure to fly ash from fluidized bed coal combustion: a morphometric study. 
  • Development of the Low Emissions Analysis Platform - Integrated Benefits Calculator (LEAP-IBC) tool to assess air quality and climate co-benefits: Application for Bangladesh. 
  • Differences in Birth Weight Associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Reduction: Results from a Natural Experiment. 
  • Disparities in air quality downscaler model uncertainty across socioeconomic and demographic indicators in North Carolina. 
  • Disparities in job characteristics by race and sex in a Southern aluminum smelting facility. 
  • Disruption of iron homeostasis in mesothelial cells after talc pleurodesis. 
  • Dramatic increase in autism prevalence parallels explosion of research into its biology and causes. 
  • Dynamic molecular choreography induced by traffic exposure: A randomized, crossover trial using multi-omics profiling. 
  • Effect of FOXO3 and Air Pollution on Cognitive Function: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Older Adults in China From 2000 to 2014. 
  • Effect of inhalation of coal fly ash on vitamin A distribution in organs of the rat. 
  • Effects of a nanoceria fuel additive on the physicochemical properties of diesel exhaust particles. 
  • Effects of maternal urban particulate matter SRM 1648a exposure on birth outcomes and offspring growth in mice. 
  • Effects of particulate matter gamma radiation on oxidative stress biomarkers in COPD patients. 
  • Effects of personal air pollutant exposure on oxidative stress: Potential confounding by natural variation in melatonin levels. 
  • Effects of physical activity intensity on adulthood obesity as a function of long-term exposure to ambient PM_2.5 : Observations from a Chinese nationwide representative sample. 
  • Elevation of rat pulmonary, hepatic and lung surfactant lipids by fly ash inhalation. 
  • Emission-particle-induced ventilatory abnormalities in a rat model of pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Environmental factors in cancer: focus on air pollution. 
  • Epigenetically mediated electrocardiographic manifestations of sub-chronic exposures to ambient particulate matter air pollution in the Women's Health Initiative and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Epigenome-wide analysis of long-term air pollution exposure and DNA methylation in monocytes: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error. 
  • Evaluation and comparison of continuous fine particulate matter monitors for measurement of ambient aerosols. 
  • Exploration of NO₂ and PM_2.5 air pollution and mental health problems using high-resolution data in London-based children from a UK longitudinal cohort study. 
  • Exposure to concentrated coarse air pollution particles causes mild cardiopulmonary effects in healthy young adults. 
  • Exposure to low-dose ambient fine particulate matter PM2.5 and Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer's dementia, and Parkinson's disease in North Carolina. 
  • Exposure to particulate hexavalent chromium exacerbates allergic asthma pathology. 
  • Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds among recently pregnant rural Guatemalan women cooking and heating with solid fuels. 
  • Exposure to traffic pollution, acute inflammation and autonomic response in a panel of car commuters. 
  • Exposures to low-levels of fine particulate matter are associated with acute changes in heart rate variability, cardiac repolarization, and circulating blood lipids in coronary artery disease patients. 
  • Fetal translocation and metabolism of PAH obtained from coal fly ash given intratracheally to pregnant rats. 
  • Fine Particulate Matter and Poor Cognitive Function among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from a Community-Based, 12-Year Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Fine ambient particles induce oxidative stress and metal binding genes in human alveolar macrophages. 
  • Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) enhances FcεRI-mediated signaling and mast cell function. 
  • Fine particulate matter air pollution and under-5 children mortality in China: A national time-stratified case-crossover study. 
  • Fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease: Comparison of assessment methods for long-term exposure. 
  • Frontline Science: Multiple cathepsins promote inflammasome-independent, particle-induced cell death during NLRP3-dependent IL-1β activation. 
  • Fuel-based fine particulate and black carbon emission factors from a railyard area in Atlanta. 
  • Gaseous air pollutants and DNA methylation in a methylome-wide association study of an ethnically and environmentally diverse population of U.S. adults. 
  • Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls. 
  • Global chemical composition of ambient fine particulate matter for exposure assessment. 
  • Health and the Megacity: Urban Congestion, Air Pollution, and Birth Outcomes in Brazil. 
  • Hepatic microsomal phospholipids in rats exposed intratracheally to coal fly ash. 
  • Hierarchical spatial modeling of uncertainty in air pollution and birth weight study. 
  • High-Throughput Video Processing of Heart Rate Responses in Multiple Wild-type Embryonic Zebrafish per Imaging Field. 
  • Host and environmental factors affect pulmonary responses measured in bronchoalveolar lavage. 
  • Hourly Air Pollutants and Acute Coronary Syndrome Onset in 1.29 Million Patients. 
  • Household Air Pollution Is Associated with Altered Cardiac Function among Women in Kenya. 
  • How does infiltration behavior modify the composition of ambient PM2.5 in indoor spaces? An analysis of RIOPA data. 
  • Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) and the Clean Air Act. 
  • Identifying the threshold of outdoor PM_2.5 reversing the beneficial association between physical activity and lung function: A national longitudinal study in China. 
  • Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the risk of pregnancy complications. 
  • Impacts of a nanosized ceria additive on diesel engine emissions of particulate and gaseous pollutants. 
  • Impacts of implementing Healthy Building guidelines for daily PM_2.5 limit on premature deaths and economic losses in urban China: A population-based modeling study. 
  • Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres. 
  • Increases in ambient air pollutants during pregnancy are linked to increases in methylation of IL4, IL10, and IFNγ. 
  • Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and respiratory symptoms of women and children in a Zimbabwean village. 
  • Induction of hepatic drug metabolizing enzymes by coal fly ash in rats. 
  • Induction of pulmonary drug metabolizing enzymes by coal fly ash in rats. 
  • Inflammatory and oxidative stress responses of healthy adults to changes in personal air pollutant exposure. 
  • Inflammatory and oxidative stress responses of healthy young adults to changes in air quality during the Beijing Olympics. 
  • Information entropy tradeoffs for efficient uncertainty reduction in estimates of air pollution mortality. 
  • Inhibition of coal fly ash polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and metals induced mixed-function oxidase activity in rat lung and liver by vitamin A and citrate. 
  • Interaction of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) candidate longevity gene and particulate matter (PM2.5) on all-cause mortality: a longitudinal cohort study in China. 
  • Leukocyte Traits and Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution in the Women's Health Initiative and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality. 
  • Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and incidence of disability in activities of daily living among oldest old. 
  • Long-term exposure to ambient PM_2.5 increase obesity risk in Chinese adults: A cross-sectional study based on a nationwide survey in China. 
  • Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and fasting blood glucose level in a Chinese elderly cohort. 
  • Long-term outdoor air pollution and DNA methylation in circulating monocytes: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Malondialdehyde in Nasal Fluid: A Biomarker for Monitoring Asthma Control in Relation to Air Pollution Exposure. 
  • Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. 
  • Maternal exposure to criteria air pollutants and congenital heart defects in offspring: results from the national birth defects prevention study. 
  • Maternal exposure to particulate matter increases postnatal ozone-induced airway hyperreactivity in juvenile mice. 
  • Maternal exposure to ultrafine particles enhances influenza infection during pregnancy. 
  • Maternal urban particulate matter exposure and signaling pathways in fetal brains and neurobehavioral development in offspring. 
  • Measuring EMPs in the lung what can be measured in the lung: Asbestiform minerals and cleavage fragments. 
  • Methylome-wide association study provides evidence of particulate matter air pollution-associated DNA methylation. 
  • Mitochondrial oxidant production by a pollutant dust and NO-mediated apoptosis in human alveolar macrophage. 
  • Mortality in US Hemodialysis Patients Following Exposure to Wildfire Smoke. 
  • NO₂ and PM_2.5 air pollution co-exposure and temperature effect modification on pre-mature mortality in advanced age: a longitudinal cohort study in China. 
  • Near-roadway air pollution exposure and altered fatty acid oxidation among adolescents and young adults - The interplay with obesity. 
  • Negative ions offset cardiorespiratory benefits of PM_2.5 reduction from residential use of negative ion air purifiers. 
  • Oral cavity response to air pollutant exposure and association with pulmonary inflammation and symptoms in asthmatic children. 
  • Outcomes of developmental exposure to total particulate matter from cigarette smoke in zebrafish (Danio rerio). 
  • Outdoor air pollution: a global perspective. 
  • Overexpression of extracellular superoxide dismutase decreases lung injury after exposure to oil fly ash. 
  • PM2.5 constituents and oxidative DNA damage in humans. 
  • Particulate matter exposure, prenatal and postnatal windows of susceptibility, and autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Patients with asthma demonstrate airway inflammation after exposure to concentrated ambient particulate matter. 
  • Peak expiratory flow, breath rate and blood pressure in adults with changes in particulate matter air pollution during the Beijing Olympics: a panel study. 
  • People, place and pollution: Investigating relationships between air quality perceptions, health concerns, exposure, and individual- and area-level characteristics. 
  • Personal Exposure to PM_2.5 Oxidative Potential in Association with Pulmonary Pathophysiologic Outcomes in Children with Asthma. 
  • Personal and ambient exposures to air toxics in Camden, New Jersey. 
  • Personal exposure to particulate PAHs and anthraquinone and oxidative DNA damages in humans. 
  • Phosphatidylcholine metabolism in lung microsomes and lung surfactant of rats exposed intratracheally to coal fly ash. 
  • Physical activity attenuated the associations between ambient air pollutants and metabolic syndrome (MetS): A nationwide study across 28 provinces. 
  • Placental transfer of metals of coal fly ash into various fetal organs of rat. 
  • Pleural effects of indium phosphide in B6C3F1 mice: nonfibrous particulate induced pleural fibrosis. 
  • Pollutant particles induce arginase II in human bronchial epithelial cells. 
  • Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States. 
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of coal fly ash: analysis by gas-liquid chromatography using nematic liquid crystals. 
  • Population Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 at the Subdistrict Level in China. 
  • Predicting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a mass fraction approach in a geostatistical framework across North Carolina. 
  • Racial isolation and exposure to airborne particulate matter and ozone in understudied US populations: Environmental justice applications of downscaled numerical model output. 
  • Real-time measurements of PM_2.5 and ozone to assess the effectiveness of residential indoor air filtration in Shanghai homes. 
  • Reducing Indoor Levels of "Outdoor PM_2.5 " in Urban China: Impact on Mortalities. 
  • Reduction in pulmonary and hepatic respiratory cytochrome contents by fly ash inhalation in rats. 
  • Relationships between personal, indoor, and outdoor exposures to trace elements in PM(2.5). 
  • Residual oil fly ash and charged polymers activate epithelial cells and nociceptive sensory neurons. 
  • Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study. 
  • Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthma. 
  • Role of Innate Immune System in Environmental Lung Diseases. 
  • Role of endogenous melatonin in pathophysiologic and oxidative stress responses to personal air pollutant exposures in asthmatic children. 
  • Season and size of urban particulate matter differentially affect cytotoxicity and human immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Sequestration of mitochondrial iron by silica particle initiates a biological effect. 
  • Short-term effects of fine particulate matter and ozone on the cardiac conduction system in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. 
  • Sickness response symptoms among healthy volunteers after controlled exposures to diesel exhaust and psychological stress. 
  • Spatial heterogeneity of PM10 and O3 in São Paulo, Brazil, and implications for human health studies. 
  • Suppression of the NF-κB pathway by diesel exhaust particles impairs human antimycobacterial immunity. 
  • Survey of the potential environmental and health impacts in the immediate aftermath of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee. 
  • Synergistic effects of exposure to concentrated ambient fine pollution particles and nitrogen dioxide in humans. 
  • TRPV4-mediated calcium influx into human bronchial epithelia upon exposure to diesel exhaust particles. 
  • Temporal and spatial distribution of health, labor, and crop benefits of climate change mitigation in the United States. 
  • Teratogenic, bioenergetic, and behavioral effects of exposure to total particulate matter on early development of zebrafish (Danio rerio) are not mimicked by nicotine. 
  • The Environmental Impacts of the Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee: An Eighteen-Month Survey 
  • The complexities of air pollution regulation: the need for an integrated research and regulatory perspective. 
  • The discoloration of the Taj Mahal due to particulate carbon and dust deposition. 
  • The effect of China's Clean Air Act on cognitive function in older adults: a population-based, quasi-experimental study. 
  • The effects of leaf area density variation on the particle collection efficiency in the size range of ultrafine particles (UFP). 
  • The impact of household air cleaners on the chemical composition and children's exposure to PM_2.5 metal sources in suburban Shanghai. 
  • The impact of household air cleaners on the oxidative potential of PM_2.5 and the role of metals and sources associated with indoor and outdoor exposure. 
  • The impact of temperature on mortality in a subtropical city: effects of cold, heat, and heat waves in São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • The influence of air cleaners on indoor particulate matter components and oxidative potential in residential households in Beijing. 
  • The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO₂ reduction beyond the Paris Commitment. 
  • The role of Toll-like receptor 4 in environmental airway injury in mice. 
  • The role of in vitro gene expression profiling in particulate matter health research. 
  • The toxicology of climate change: environmental contaminants in a warming world. 
  • The triggering of myocardial infarction by fine particles is enhanced when particles are enriched in secondary species. 
  • Total particulate matter from cigarette smoke disrupts vascular development in zebrafish brain (Danio rerio). 
  • Triggering of transmural infarctions, but not nontransmural infarctions, by ambient fine particles. 
  • Urban airborne particle exposure impairs human lung and blood Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity. 
  • Using low-cost sensor technologies and advanced computational methods to improve dose estimations in health panel studies: results of the AIRLESS project. 
  • Vanilloid (capsaicin) receptors influence inflammatory sensitivity in response to particulate matter. 
  • Where Is Air Quality Improving, and Who Benefits? A Study of PM2.5 and Ozone Over 15 Years. 
  • Zebrafish Locomotor Responses Reveal Irritant Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Extracts and a Role for TRPA1. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Vengosh, Avner, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative