Particulate matter air pollution causes oxidant-mediated increase in gut permeability in mice

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mutlu, Ece A ^a   Engen, Phillip A ^a   Soberanes, Saul ^b   Urich, Daniela ^b   Forsyth, Christopher B ^a   Nigdelioglu, Recep ^b   Chiarella, Sergio E ^b   Radigan, Kathryn A ^b   Gonzalez, Angel ^b   Jakate, Shriram ^a   Keshavarzian, Ali ^a   Budinger, G R S ^b   Mutlu, Gökhan M ^b  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXIDIZING AGENT; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; ZONULA OCCLUDENS-1 PROTEIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IL6 GENE; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ISOLATION; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSEPITHELIAL ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; IMPEDANCE; METABOLISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDANTS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 79958027995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17438977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8977-8-19     Document Type: Article

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