Protective effects of N-acetyl cysteine against diesel exhaust particles-induced intracellular ROS generates pro-inflammatory cytokines to mediate the vascular permeability of capillary-like endothelial tubes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Tseng, Chia Yi ^a   Chang, Jing Fen ^a   Wang, Jhih Syuan ^a   Chang, Yu Jung ^a   Gordon, Marion K ^b   Chao, Ming Wei ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CADHERIN; GLUTATHIONE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; I KAPPA B ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINE; EXHAUST GAS; HMOX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROTECTIVE AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESEL EXHAUST PARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; ADHERENS JUNCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PARTICULATE MATTER; TOXICITY;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANTIGENS, CD; CADHERINS; CAPILLARIES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINES; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84940192492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131911     Document Type: Article

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