High Level of Real Urban Air Pollution Promotes Cardiac Arrhythmia in Healthy Mice.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Ambient particulate matter (PM) in real urban air pollution (RUA) is an environmental health risk factor associated with increased cardiac events. This study investigated the threshold level to induce arrhythmia, as well as arrhythmogenic mechanism of RUA that mainly consisted of PM <2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter close to ultrafine particles.

Methods

RUA was artificially produced by a lately developed pyrolysis based RUA generator. C57BL/6 mice were divided into 4 groups: a control group (control, n=12) and three groups with exposure to RUA with the concentration of 200 μg/m³ (n=12), 400 μg/m³ (n=12), and 800 μg/m³ (n=12). Mice were exposed to RUA at each concentration for 8 hr/day and 5 day/week to mimic ordinary human activity during 3 weeks.

SUBMITTER: Park H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853890 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature