Airborne Particulate Matter and Human Health: Toxicological Assessment and Importance of Size and Composition of Particles for Oxidative Damage and Carcinogenic Mechanisms

Valavanidis, Athanasios; Fiotakis, Konstantinos; Vlachogianni, Thomais

doi:10.1080/10590500802494538

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Airborne Particulate Matter and Human Health: Toxicological Assessment and Importance of Size and Composition of Particles for Oxidative Damage and Carcinogenic Mechanisms

Published in Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part C • Nov 26, 2008

Authors:

Athanasios Valavanidis

Konstantinos Fiotakis

Thomais Vlachogianni

Abstract

Air pollution has been considered a hazard to human health. In the past decades, many studies highlighted the role of ambient airborne particulate matter (PM) as an important environmental pollutant for many different cardiopulmonary diseases and lung cancer. Numerous epidemiological studies in the ...

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Particulates

Oxidative stress

Environmental chemistry

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