ReviewAmerican journal of clinical and experimental immunology2014
Dust events, pulmonary diseases and immune system.
Review in American journal of clinical and experimental immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Climate Change and the Impact On Interstitial Lung Diseases.Pulmonary therapy · 2026Review
- What do the clinical and respiratory functional assessments of woodworkers in Parakou, West Africa, reveal?Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2025Article
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- An Integrated Strategy for Preventing and Rehabilitating Dust-Induced Occupational Bronchopulmonary Diseases: A Scoping Review.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2025Article
- The Impact of Climate Change on Immunity and Gut Microbiota in the Development of Disease.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Effects of Green Tea Polyphenol Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate on Markers of Inflammation and Fibrosis in a Rat Model of Pulmonary Silicosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Recognising the importance of chronic lung disease: a consensus statement from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (Lung Diseases group).Respiratory research · 2023Article
- Mechanisms underlying the health effects of desert sand dust.Environment international · 2021Review
- Duration of exposure and educational level as predictors of occupational respiratory symptoms among adults in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2021Review
- Dust Storms and Human Health: A Call for More Consistent, Higher-Quality Studies.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- Global nature of airborne particle toxicity and health effects: a focus on megacities, wildfires, dust storms and residential biomass burning.Toxicology research · 2020Article
- Characterization of Bacteria on Aerosols From Dust Events in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.GeoHealth · 2020Article
- Up-regulation of exosomal miR-125a in pneumoconiosis inhibits lung cancer development by suppressing expressions of EZH2 and hnRNPK.RSC advances · 2018Article
- Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Allergies in the Anthropocene: Abundance, Interaction, and Modification of Allergens and Adjuvants.Environmental science & technology · 2017Article
- Respiratory symptoms among Swedish soldiers after military service abroad: association with time spent in a desert environment.European clinical respiratory journal · 2017Article
- Onset of frequent dust storms in northern China at ~AD 1100.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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- Evaluation of the Pulmonary Toxicity of Ambient Particulate Matter From Camp Victory, Iraq.Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A · 2015Article
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Incidences of sand storms have increased in recent years and there is evidence that these dusts can move across long distances. Sand dusts have different adverse effects on health, but one of the most important of them is pulmonary disease. After inhalation of dust, many dust particles are moved to the airways. Dust particles can be sensed by airways epithelial cells, activate macrophages, dendritic cells and innate immune cells and then initiate responses in various populations of specific immune cells such as T helper cells subsets (Th1, Th2, Th17), T cytotoxic cells and B cells. Initiation of inflammatory immune responses, activation of immune cells and releases of many cytokines, chemokines and other inflammatory molecules, have variable pathologic affects on lung in different respiratory diseases. Unfortunately control of desert dusts is more difficult than control of air pollution. For prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases that are caused by desert dusts, researchers need well-designed epidemiological studies, combined with analysis of the precise composition of sand dusts, and the precise mechanisms of the immune responses. Recognizing the exact cellular and molecular immune mechanisms would be very useful to find new approaches for treatment of desert dust associated pulmonary diseases.
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