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Arthur K. Cho is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a concentration on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work incorporates several related subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's recent publications show a range of topics within environmental impacts and health. These include:

  • CYP2D6 genotype may moderate measures of brain structure in methamphetamine users, 2020, Addiction Biology
  • Combined adjuvant effects of ambient vapor-phase organic components and particulate matter potently promote allergic sensitization and Th2-skewing cytokine and chemokine milieux in mice: The importance of mechanistic multi-pollutant research, 2021, Toxicology Letters
  • Chemical and Biological Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) and Volatile Organic Compounds Collected at Different Sites in the Los Angeles Basin, 2020, Applied Sciences
  • Inhalation of electrophilic and redox active electronic cigarette aerosol increases oxidative potential in the lung in an acute manner, 2025, Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Their main topics of work cover areas including air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, pharmacogenetics and drug metabolism, diet and metabolism studies, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, and heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide. The emphasis on air quality and related health effects is evident across numerous publications.

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Notable collaborators include:

  • John R. Froines (2 publications)
  • Andy C. Dean
  • Erika L. Nurmi
  • Angelica M. Morales
  • Lauren C. Seaman

Arthur K. Cho has published in a variety of scientific venues, with recent articles appearing in Addiction Biology, Toxicology Letters, Applied Sciences, and Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Their publication record spans key journals that focus on toxicology, biology, and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • Ultrafine particulate pollutants induce oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage.

    Ning Li;Constantinos Sioutas;Arthur Cho;Debra Schmitz

  • Redox activity of airborne particulate matter at different sites in the Los Angeles Basin.

    Arthur K. Cho;Constantinos Sioutas;Constantinos Sioutas;Antonio H. Miguel;Yoshito Kumagai;Yoshito Kumagai

  • Evaluating the toxicity of airborne particulate matter and nanoparticles by measuring oxidative stress potential--a workshop report and consensus statement.

    Jon G. Ayres;Paul Borm;Flemming R. Cassee;Vincent Castranova

  • Nrf2 Is a Key Transcription Factor That Regulates Antioxidant Defense in Macrophages and Epithelial Cells: Protecting against the Proinflammatory and Oxidizing Effects of Diesel Exhaust Chemicals

    Ning Li;Jawed Alam;M. Indira Venkatesan;Arantza Eiguren-Fernandez

  • The Chemical Biology of Naphthoquinones and Its Environmental Implications

    Yoshito Kumagai;Yasuhiro Shinkai;Takashi Miura;Arthur K. Cho

  • The demethylenation of methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("ecstasy") by debrisoquine hydroxylase (CYP2D6).

    G.T. Tucker;M.S. Lennard;S.W. Ellis;H.F. Woods

  • Determination of Four Quinones in Diesel Exhaust Particles, SRM 1649a, and Atmospheric PM2.5Special Issue ofAerosol Science and Technologyon Findings from the Fine Particulate Matter Supersites Program

    Arthur K. Cho;Emma Di Stefano;Ying You;Chester E. Rodriguez

  • Relationship between redox activity and chemical speciation of size-fractionated particulate matter

    Leonidas Ntziachristos;John R Froines;Arthur K Cho;Constantinos Sioutas

  • Comparison of the behavioral and biochemical effects of the NMDA receptor antagonists, MK-801 and phencyclidine

    Masayuki Hiramatsu;Arthur K. Cho;Nabeshima Toshitaka

  • Metabolism of methylenedioxymethamphetamine: formation of dihydroxymethamphetamine and a quinone identified as its glutathione adduct.

    M Hiramatsu;Y Kumagai;S E Unger;A K Cho

  • Ice: A New Dosage Form of an Old Drug

    Arthur K. Cho

  • Redox activity of urban quasi-ultrafine particles from primary and secondary sources

    Vishal Verma;Zhi Ning;Arthur K. Cho;James J. Schauer

  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis of the actions of D-amphetamine and D-methamphetamine on the dopamine terminal.

    W P Melega;A E Williams;D A Schmitz;E W DiStefano

  • Oxidation of Methamphetamine and Methylenedioxymethamphetamine by CYP2D6

    L. Y. Lin;E. W. Di Stefano;D. A. Schmitz;L. Hsu

  • Redox activity and chemical speciation of size fractioned PM in the communities of the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor

    S. Hu;A. Polidori;M. Arhami;M. M. Shafer

  • Disposition of methylenedioxymethamphetamine and three metabolites in the brains of different rat strains and their possible roles in acute serotonin depletion.

    Teresa Chu;Yoshito Kumagai;Emma W. DiStefano;Arthur K. Cho

  • Oxidative potential of semi-volatile and non volatile particulate matter (PM) from heavy-duty vehicles retrofitted with emission control technologies.

    Subhasis Biswas;Vishal Verma;James J. Schauer;Flemming R. Cassee

  • Escalating dose methamphetamine pretreatment alters the behavioral and neurochemical profiles associated with exposure to a high-dose methamphetamine binge.

    David S Segal;Ronald Kuczenski;Meghan L O'Neil;William P Melega

  • Inhalation of Concentrated Ambient Particulate Matter near a Heavily Trafficked Road Stimulates Antigen-Induced Airway Responses in Mice

    Michael T Kleinman;Ali Hamade;Dianne Meacher;Michael Oldham

  • Chemical knockdown of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B by 1,2-naphthoquinone through covalent modification causes persistent transactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor.

    Noriko Iwamoto;Daigo Sumi;Takeshi Ishii;Koji Uchida

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshito Kumagai
Yoshito Kumagai University of Tsukuba
John R. Froines
John R. Froines University of California, Los Angeles
Constantinos Sioutas
Constantinos Sioutas University of Southern California
Jon M. Fukuto
Jon M. Fukuto Sonoma State University
James J. Schauer
James J. Schauer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Martin M. Shafer
Martin M. Shafer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yoshihiko Funae
Yoshihiko Funae Osaka Metropolitan University
Ralph J. Delfino
Ralph J. Delfino University of California, Irvine
David R. Cocker
David R. Cocker University of California, Riverside
Andre E. Nel
Andre E. Nel University of California, Los Angeles

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