A detailed aerosol source apportionment study was performed with two sampling
campaigns, during wintertime and summertime in the heavily polluted metropolitan area of …

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that positively charged dendrimers form a
complex with enoxaparin, a low‐molecular weight heparin (LMWH), and that the resulting …

Background: An understanding of the risk factors contributing to disease burden is critical for
determining research priorities and informing national health policy. We aimed to identify the …

Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) help to organize available mechanistic information
related to an adverse outcome into key events (KEs) spanning all organizational levels of a …

OBJECTIVE: Biofuel from sugarcane is widely produced in developing countries and is a
clean and renewable alternative source of energy. However, sugarcane harvesting is mostly …

Nasal epithelium provides a physical barrier to potentially harmful stimuli. Cilia, which is on
the apical side of the human nasal epithelial cells (HNEpCs), plays a critical role in removing …

Despite the fact that the knowledge that air pollution promotes adverse health effects is not
new, studies on pollution derived from indoor sources has received considerably less …

Purpose: Impaired mucociliary clearance is an initial characteristic of recurrent cough,
respiratory infection and chronic respiratory diseases. It has been demonstrated that …

OBJECTIVE: We compared the adverse effects of two types of real ambient particles; ie, total
suspended particles from an electrostatic precipitator of a steel mill and fine air particles from …

A backscattering light detection and ranging (lidar) system, the first of this kind in the country,
has been set up in a suburban area in the city of São Paulo, Brazil (23° 33′ S, 46° 44′ W) …