Combined exposure to ozone and nitrogen dioxide.

Combined exposure to ozone and nitrogen dioxide.

The combined effects of ozone and nitrogen dioxide were assessed in an in vitro test system utilizing human red cells. In general, these two pollutants had additive effects on the parameters measured which included osmotic fragility, acetylcholinesterase activity, lipid peroxidation, reduced glutathione and methemoglobin levels. However, at lower pollutant doses a synergistic increase in lipid ...

Pnm-18: Maternal Exposure to Ozone, Nirogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide and Spontaneous Abortion

Background: Adverse pregnancy outcomes (low birth weight, prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation) are associated with exposure to urban air pollution. Experimental data have also shown that such exposure elicits adverse reproductive outcomes. We examined association between spontaneous abortion of the first trimester of pregnancy and ambient concentrations of Ozone, Nirogen Dioxide and...

Centriacinar remodeling and sustained procollagen gene expression after exposure to ozone and nitrogen dioxide.

Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to 0.8 ppm ozone (O3), to 14.4 ppm nitrogen dioxide (NO2), or to both gases simultaneously for 6 h per day for up to 90 d. The extent of histopathologic changes within the central acinus of the lungs was compared after 7 or 78 to 90 d of exposure using morphometric analysis by placement of concentric arcs radiating outward from a single reference point at the le...

Personal exposure of children to nitrogen dioxide.

Associations between daily mortality in London and combined oxidant capacity, ozone and nitrogen dioxide

Both nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) are powerful oxidants in ambient air that are intimately linked through atmospheric chemistry and which continuously interchange over very short timescales. Based upon atmospheric chemistry alone, there is a strong, a priori, reason for considering O3 and NO2 together in epidemiological studies, rather than either of the two pollutants separately in si...