Effects of Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash on innate immune system responses and bacterial growth in vitro

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 691-698

  Monick, Martha M ^a   Baltrusaitis, Jonas ^b   Powers, Linda S ^a   Borcherding, Jennifer A ^a   Caraballo, Juan C ^a   Mudunkotuwa, Imali ^b   Peate, David W ^b   Walters, Katherine ^b   Thompson, Jay M ^c   Grassian, Vicki H ^b   Gudmundsson, Gunnar ^d   Comellas, Alejandro P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Epithelium; Innate immunity; Iron; Macrophage; Volcanic ash

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL DEATH; EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLCANIC ASH; WESTERN BLOTTING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIA; BETA-DEFENSINS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RATTUS;

EID: 84878461574     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206004     Document Type: Article

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