Background: Air pollution is an important and interventionable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Air pollution exposure, even for a short-term exposure, is conspicuously relevant to increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) mortality and clinical evidence has shown that air pollution particulate matter (PM) induces the aggravation of AMI. 3,4-benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), an extremely toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and a common component of PM, is listed as one of the main objects of environmental pollution monitoring. Both epidemiological and toxicological studies suggest that BaP exposure may be associated with cardiovascular disease. Since PM is significantly associated with the increased risk of MI mortality, and BaP is an important component of PM associated with cardiovascular disease, we intend to investigate the effect of BaP on MI models.
Methods: The MI mouse model and the oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) H9C2 cell model were used to investigate the effect of BaP in MI injury. The involvement of mitophagy and pyroptosis in regulating deterioration of cardiac function and aggravation of MI injury induced by BaP was comprehensively evaluated.
Results: Our study shows that BaP exacerbates MI injury in vivo and in vitro, a result based on BaP-induced NLRP3-related pyroptosis. In addition, BaP can inhibit PINK1/Parkin dependent mitophagy through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), thus the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) was induced to open.
Conclusion: Our results suggest a role for the BaP from air pollution in MI injury aggravation and reveal that BaP aggravates MI injury by activating NLRP3-related pyroptosis via the PINK1/Parkin-mitophagy-mPTP opening axis.
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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego.
Importance: The degree that in-home cannabis smoking can be detected in the urine of resident children is unclear.
Objective: Test association of in-home cannabis smoking with urinary cannabinoids in children living at home.
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Environ Monit Assess
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College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350000, China.
This study expands the original two-dimensional carbon footprint model into a three-dimensional model form. Introduce two indicators of carbon footprint depth (CF) and size (CF) to form a three-dimensional carbon footprint model (CF), which is used to respectively represent the occupation and consumption of natural capital reserves by human activities' carbon emissions. Based on the 3D carbon footprint model, this paper calculated the CF, CF, and CF for four different urban agglomerations of China (BTH, YRD, PRD, and CY) spanning from 2000 to 2017.
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January 2025
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health (Mr Bland, Dr Zajac, Ms Guel, Dr Pendley, Dr Galvez, Dr Sheffield), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Mr Wilson), Boston, Massachusetts; Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center (Ms Charlesworth), University of California, San Francisco, California; Community Engagement Core, Environmental Health Sciences Center at Department of Environmental Medicine (Dr Korfmacher), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Pediatric Environmental Health and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Dr Newman), Cincinnati, Ohio; Philadelphia Regional Center for Children's Environmental Health, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, Perelman School of Medicine (Dr Howarth), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Montefiore (Dr Balk), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
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January 2025
School of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P. R. China.
The effective collection of interfacial tribo-charges and an increase in load voltage are two essential factors that improve the output energy of triboelectric nanogenerators. However, some tribo-charges are hardly collected through one or multiple integrated side electrodes based on corona discharge, and their load voltages are limited by air breakdown in adjacent electrodes. In this study, a dynamic quasi-dipole potential distribution model is proposed to systematically reveal the mechanisms of interfacial tribo-charge loss.
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School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China.
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