ArticleParticle and fibre toxicology2013
Diesel exhaust particulate increases the size and complexity of lesions in atherosclerotic mice.
Article in Particle and fibre toxicology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- Two Web-Based and Theory-Based Interventions With and Without Brief Motivational Interviewing in the Promotion of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Trial
- Acute exposure to traffic-related air pollution alters antioxidant status in healthy adults.Environmental research · 2020Trial
- Effects of urban fine particulate matter and ozone on HDL functionality.Particle and fibre toxicology · 2016Trial
- Multiple maternal occupational exposures during pregnancy and newborn size at birth: analysis of the ELFE cohort, a French longitudinal study of children.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Sex-specific gut microbial and metabolic responses to inhaled diesel exhaust particle exposure are modified by probiotic treatment in C57BL/6 mice.Research square · 2026Article
- Environmental modulators of vascular physiology and inflammation.Experimental physiology · 2026Review
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors and Statins Mitigate Negative Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Effects of Particulate Matter in a Mouse Exposure Model.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Links between Air Pollution and Aortic Diseases: Current Evidence for Future Prevention and Treatment.International journal of medical sciences · 2026Review
- A comprehensive review/expert statement on environmental risk factors of cardiovascular disease.Cardiovascular research · 2025Review
- The Dark Triad of Particulate Matter, Oxidative Stress and Coronary Artery Disease: What About the Antioxidant Therapeutic Potential.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Environmentally Not So Friendly: Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Wildfires: JACC Focus Seminar, Part 1.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024Review
- New insights into the association of air pollution and kidney diseases by tracing gold nanoparticles with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2024Article
- Article
- Association of air pollution exposure and increased coronary artery disease risk: the modifying effect of genetic susceptibility.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
- Associations between short-term exposure to fine particulate matter and acute myocardial infarction: A case-crossover study.Clinical cardiology · 2023Article
- Ambient Air Pollution and Stroke: An Updated Review.Stroke · 2023Review
- The macrophage senescence hypothesis: the role of poor heat shock response in pulmonary inflammation and endothelial dysfunction following chronic exposure to air pollution.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2022Review
- Article
- Article
- Oxidative stress generated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from ambient particulate matter enhance vascular smooth muscle cell migration through MMP upregulation and actin reorganization.Particle and fibre toxicology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveDiesel exhaust particulate (DEP), a major component of urban air pollution, has been linked to atherogenesis and precipitation of myocardial infarction. We hypothesized that DEP exposure would increase and destabilise atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E deficient (ApoE-/-) mice.
methodsApoE-/- mice were fed a 'Western diet' (8 weeks) to induce 'complex' atherosclerotic plaques, with parallel experiments in normal chow fed wild-type mice. During the last 4 weeks of feeding, mice received twice weekly instillation (oropharyngeal aspiration) of 35 μL DEP (1 mg/mL, SRM-2975) or vehicle (saline). Atherosclerotic burden was assessed by en-face staining of the thoracic aorta and histological examination of the brachiocephalic artery.
resultsBrachiocephalic atherosclerotic plaques were larger in ApoE-/- mice treated with DEP (59 ± 10%) than in controls (32 ± 7%; P = 0.017). In addition, DEP-treated mice had more plaques per section of artery (2.4 ± 0.2 vs 1.8 ± 0.2; P = 0.048) and buried fibrous layers (1.2 ± 0.2 vs 0.4 ± 0.1; P = 0.028). These changes were associated with lung inflammation and increased antioxidant gene expression in the liver, but not with changes in endothelial function, plasma lipids or systemic inflammation.
conclusionsIncreased atherosclerosis is caused by the particulate component of diesel exhaust producing advanced plaques with a potentially more vulnerable phenotype. These results are consistent with the suggestion that removal of the particulate component would reduce the adverse cardiovascular effects of diesel exhaust.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.