1. Inter-continental variability in the relationship of oxidative potential and cytotoxicity with PM 2.5 mass.
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Salana S, Yu H, Dai Z, Subramanian PSG, Puthussery JV, Wang Y, Singh A, Pope FD, Leiva G MA, Rastogi N, Tripathi SN, Weber RJ, and Verma V
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- Humans, Oxidation-Reduction, Particle Size, Environmental Monitoring methods, Animals, Cell Survival drug effects, Particulate Matter toxicity, Air Pollutants toxicity
- Abstract
Most fine ambient particulate matter (PM
2.5 )-based epidemiological models use globalized concentration-response (CR) functions assuming that the toxicity of PM2.5 is solely mass-dependent without considering its chemical composition. Although oxidative potential (OP) has emerged as an alternate metric of PM2.5 toxicity, the association between PM2.5 mass and OP on a large spatial extent has not been investigated. In this study, we evaluate this relationship using 385 PM2.5 samples collected from 14 different sites across 4 different continents and using 5 different OP (and cytotoxicity) endpoints. Our results show that the relationship between PM2.5 mass vs. OP (and cytotoxicity) is largely non-linear due to significant differences in the intrinsic toxicity, resulting from a spatially heterogeneous chemical composition of PM2.5 . These results emphasize the need to develop localized CR functions incorporating other measures of PM2.5 properties (e.g., OP) to better predict the PM2.5 -attributed health burdens., (© 2024. The Author(s).)- Published
- 2024
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