BACKGROUND Studies from our laboratory have shown that human alveolar macrophages (AM) and bronchial epithelial cells (HBEC) exposed to ambient particles (PM10) in vitro increase their production of inflammatory mediators and that supernatants from PM10-exposed cells shorten the transit time of monocytes through the bone marrow and promote their release into the circulation. METHODS The prese...

BACKGROUND Toxicological research suggests that coarse particles (PM10-2.5) are inflammatory, but responses are complex and may be best summarized by multiple inflammatory markers. Few human studies have investigated associations with PM10-2.5 and, of those, none have explored long-term exposures. Here we examine long-term associations with inflammation and coagulation in the Multi-Ethnic Study...

The Federal Reference Method (FRM) ambient PM10 sampler does not always measure the true PM10 concentration. There are inherent sampling errors associated with the PM10 samplers due to the interaction of particle size distribution (PSD) and sampler performance characteristics. These sampling errors, which are the relative differences between theoretical estimation of the sampler concentration a...

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Fanny M Passot, Virginie Calderon, Gwennaele Fichant, David Lane 7 and Franck Pasta 8 9 Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires 10 UMR 5100 CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier 11 118 Route de Narbonne 12 31062 Toulouse Cedex France 13 14 † present adress 15 Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie 16 UMR 8621 CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11 17 15, rue Georges Clémenceau 18 F 91405 ORSAY Ced...

Two peptide analogs of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMK-(peptides)) were synthesized and used to probe interactions of the various regulatory domains of the kinase. CaMK-(281-289) contained only Thr286, the major Ca2+-dependent autophosphorylation site of the kinase (Schworer, C. M., Colbran, R. J., Keefer, J. R. & Soderling, T. R. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 13486-13489), where...

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BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between air pollution levels and respiratory symptoms and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) living in Christchurch, New Zealand. METHODS Forty subjects aged over 55 years with COPD completed twice daily diaries for three months during the winter of 1994. Subjects reco...

BACKGROUND A nationwide asthma survey on the effects of air pollution is lacking in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the time trend and the relationship between air pollution and health care services for asthma in Taiwan. METHODS Health care services for asthma and ambient air pollution data were obtained from the National Health Insurance Research database and Environmental ...