Feasibility of using biomarkers in blood serum as markers of effect following exposure of the lungs to particulate matter air pollution

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part C Environmental Carcinogenesis and Ecotoxicology Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-44

  Elvidge, Timothy ^a   Matthews, Ian P ^a   Gregory, Clive ^a   Hoogendoorn, Bastiaan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air pollution; epidemiologic studies; exposure assessment; human health effects; oxidative stress; particulate matter; serum biomarkers

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SERUM BIOMARKERS;

BLOOD; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

AIR POLLUTION;

3 NITROTYROSINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CLARA CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; D DIMER; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FIBRINOGEN; HOMOCYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MALONALDEHYDE; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; PADGEM PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; SELECTIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL ADHESION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXHAUST GAS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; REVIEW; SERUM; TISSUE INJURY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SERUM;

EID: 84876125839     PISSN: 10590501     EISSN: 15324095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10590501.2013.763575     Document Type: Review

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