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ArticleFrontiers in toxicology2022

On-Site Deployment of an Air-Liquid-Interphase Device to Assess Health Hazard Potency of Airborne Workplace Contaminants: The Case of 3-D Printers.

Boowook Kim, Jae Hoon Shin, Hoi Pin Kim, Mi Seong Jo, Hee Sang Kim, Jong Sung Lee, Hong Ku Lee, Hyuk Cheol Kwon, Sung Gu Han, Noeul Kang and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in toxicology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Lung cell toxicological effects of 3D printer aerosolized filament byproducts.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Boowook KimInstitute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Jae Hoon ShinInstitute of Occupation and Environment, KCOMWEL, Incheon, Korea.
Hoi Pin KimAerosol Toxicology Research Center, HCTm, Icheon, Korea.
Mi Seong JoAerosol Toxicology Research Center, HCTm, Icheon, Korea.
Hee Sang KimAerosol Toxicology Research Center, HCTm, Icheon, Korea.
Jong Sung LeeInstitute of Occupation and Environment, KCOMWEL, Incheon, Korea.
Hong Ku LeeAerosol Toxicology Research Center, HCTm, Icheon, Korea.
Hyuk Cheol KwonToxicology Laboratory, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Sung Gu HanToxicology Laboratory, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Noeul KangDivision of Allergy, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Mary GulumianHaematology and Molecular Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dhimiter BelloDepartment of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, United States.
Il Je YuHCT. Co., Icheon, Korea.
Korea Institute of Toxicology · KRNational Institute of Environmental Research · KRKonkuk University · KRSungkyunkwan University · KRUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell · USUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomonitoring of workers is an approach of evaluating workers' exposure to chemicals and particulate matter by measuring biomarkers of parent chemicals, their metabolites, and reaction products in workers' biospecimens. Prerequisites for biological monitoring in the workplace include permission to enter the workplace, approval of the study plan from the IRB (Institutional Review Board), and obtaining consent from workers. Because of the complex legal process involved in biomonitoring, few studies have been conducted so far on biomonitoring of workers' exposures to nanoparticles and other hazards from emerging materials and advanced nanotechnologies. We have developed a cell-based biomonitoring device that can evaluate acute cytotoxicity and various other effect biomakers, such as inflammation, at realistic workplace exposure. This device is based on air-liquid interphase (ALI) and can be used to evaluate cell toxicity and early effect biomarkers along adverse outcome pathways. Following exposure of A549 lung epithelial cells in ALI to workplace air for 1-2 h, the cells were processed to assess the induction of inflammatory and cell damage biomarkers. Initially, we estimated the deposition rate of nanoparticles in the transwell by exposing the cell-free ALI device to silver nanoparticle aerosols (AgNP 20-30 nm) for 2 h in the laboratory. Then A549 lung epithelial cells cultured on the transwell in the ALI device were exposed to AgNP nanoaerosols for 2 h and evaluated for cytotoxicity and induction of mRNAs of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1b, IL-6, and TNF-α. Then the cells in the ALI device were exposed to 3-D printer emissions at the workplace and evaluated for the same matched endpoints. The mRNA levels for IL-1b, IL-6, and TNF-α increased significantly at the end of 2-h exposure of A549 cells to the positive control AgNP aerosols. These mRNAs, as well as LDH and microprotein concentrations, increased even more after 24-h post-exposure incubation (

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3-D printer emissionair-liquid-interphasebiomonitoringinflammasomesilver nanoparticlesTNF-α mRNAworkplace

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