Effect of inhaled carbon ultrafine particles on reactive hyperemia in healthy human subjects

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-380

  Shah, Alpa P ^a   Pietropaoli, Anthony P ^a   Frasier, Lauren M ^a   Speers, Donna M ^a   Chalupa, David C ^a   Delehanty, Joseph M ^a   Huang, Li Shan ^a   Utell, Mark J ^a   Frampton, Mark W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Nitric oxide; Particulate matter; Reactive hyperemia; Vascular

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INHALATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VENOUS BLOOD; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40849147122     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10323     Document Type: Article

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