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ArticleParticle and fibre toxicology2024

Monitoring redox stress in human airway epithelial cells exposed to woodsmoke at an air-liquid interface.

Aiman Abzhanova, Jon Berntsen, Edward R Pennington, Lisa Dailey, Syed Masood, Ingrid George, Nina Warren, Joseph Martin, Michael D Hays, Andrew J Ghio and 4 more

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Article in Particle and fibre toxicology, 2024. 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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2citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

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. In vitro approaches to assess respiratory toxicity from volatile organic compounds: an in-depth review.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Aiman AbzhanovaCurriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jon BerntsenTRC Environmental Corporation, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Edward R PenningtonOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
Lisa DaileyPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Syed MasoodCurriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Ingrid GeorgePublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Nina WarrenPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Joseph MartinPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Michael D HaysPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Andrew J GhioPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Jason P WeinsteinPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Yong Ho KimPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
Earl PuckettPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA.
James M SametPublic Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, EPA Human Studies Facility, Research Triangle Park, 104 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7310, USA. samet.james@epa.gov.
Research Triangle Park Foundation · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USOak Ridge Associated Universities · USTRC Companies (United States) · US

Funding

TOXICOLOGYT32ES007126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ILONA JASPERS, Bernard E. Weissman · 1985 to 2026
$13.0M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007126U.S. EPA-University of North Carolina Coop CR_84033801
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wildland fires contribute significantly to the ambient air pollution burden worldwide, causing a range of adverse health effects in exposed populations. The toxicity of woodsmoke, a complex mixture of gases, volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter, is commonly studied in vitro using isolated exposures of conventionally cultured lung cells to either resuspended particulate matter or organic solvent extracts of smoke, leading to incomplete toxicity evaluations. This study aimed to improve our understanding of the effects of woodsmoke inhalation by building an advanced in vitro exposure system that emulates human exposure of the airway epithelium. We report the development and characterization of an innovative system that permits live-cell monitoring of the intracellular redox status of differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells cultured at an air-liquid interface (pHBEC-ALI) as they are exposed to unfractionated woodsmoke generated in a tube furnace in real time. pHBEC-ALI exposed to freshly generated woodsmoke showed oxidative changes that were dose-dependent and reversible, and not attributable to carbon monoxide exposure. These findings show the utility of this novel system for studying the molecular initiating events underlying woodsmoke-induced toxicity in a physiologically relevant in vitro model, and its potential to provide biological plausibility for risk assessment and public health measures.

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Air PollutionParticulate MatterEpithelial CellsHumansLungSmokeParticulate MatterSmoke

Identifiers

PMID38459567
PMCPMC10921608
OpenAlexW4392591341

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