Status and characteristics of ambient PM2. 5 pollution in global megacities

Z Cheng, L Luo, S Wang, Y Wang, S Sharma… - Environment …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ambient PM 2.5 pollution is a substantial threat to public health in global megacities. This
paper reviews the PM 2.5 pollution of 45 global megacities in 2013, based on mass …

Aeroparticles, composition, and lung diseases

CI Falcon-Rodriguez, AR Osornio-Vargas… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Urban air pollution is a serious worldwide problem due to its impact on human health. In the
past 60 years, growing evidence established a correlation between exposure to air …

Breathing fresh air in the city: implementing avenue trees as a sustainable solution to reduce particulate pollution in urban agglomerations

M Mandal, R Popek, A Przybysz, A Roy, S Das… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The issue of air pollution from particulate matter (PM) is getting worse as more and more
people move into urban areas around the globe. Due to the complexity and diversity of …

Megacities air pollution problems: Mexico City Metropolitan Area critical issues on the central nervous system pediatric impact

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, RJ Kulesza, RL Doty… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The chronic health effects associated with sustained exposures to high concentrations of air
pollutants are an important issue for millions of megacity residents and millions more living …

Particle-bound PAHs and Chemical Composition, Sources and Health Risk of PM2.5 in a Highly Industrialized Area

E Vega, D López-Veneroni, O Ramírez… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - Springer
PM2. 5 monitoring campaigns were conducted in 2006, 2010, and 2011 in Tula, Hidalgo,
Mexico, a highly industrialized area which includes a refinery, a thermoelectric power plant …

TNFα and IL-6 Responses to Particulate Matter in Vitro: Variation According to PM Size, Season, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Soil Content

N Manzano-León, J Serrano-Lomelin… - Environmental …, 2016 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Observed seasonal differences in particulate matter (PM) associations with
human health may be due to their composition and to toxicity-related seasonal interactions …

PM2.5 exposure as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Mexico City metropolitan area

OL Chilian-Herrera, M Tamayo-Ortiz… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background Exposure to air pollution is the main risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the
world. Exposure to particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter≤ 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) is …

Combustion-derived nanoparticles, the neuroenteric system, cervical vagus, hyperphosphorylated alpha synuclein and tau in young Mexico City residents

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, R Reynoso-Robles… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mexico City (MC) young residents are exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter (PM
2.5), have high frontal concentrations of combustion-derived nanoparticles (CDNPs) …

[PDF][PDF] A study of PM2. 5 elemental composition in southwest Mexico City and development of receptor models with positive matrix factorization

AE Hernández-López… - Revista internacional …, 2021 - scielo.org.mx
ABSTRACT A study of elemental composition of PM 2.5 samples collected at the main
campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, comprising data from 2015 …

A Characterization and Cell Toxicity Assessment of Particulate Pollutants from Road Traffic Sites in Kano State, Nigeria

AA Sadiq, S Khardi, AN Lazar, IW Bello, SP Salam… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Emerging African countries are characterized by explosive population growth and
urbanization, which threaten environmental sustainability. This study comparatively …