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SUBMITTER: Holland NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617757 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Holland Nathan A NA Fraiser Chad R CR Sloan Ruben C RC Devlin Robert B RB Brown David A DA Wingard Christopher J CJ
Cardiovascular toxicology 20171001 4
Ultrafine particulate matter (UFP) has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the mechanisms that drive PM-associated cardiovascular disease and dysfunction remain unclear. We examined the impact of oropharyngeal aspiration of 100 μg UFP from the Chapel Hill, NC, air shed in Sprague-Dawley rats on cardiac function, arrhythmogenesis, and cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury using a Langendorff working heart model. We found that exposure to UFP was cap ...[more]