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James M. Samet is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of environmental science and medicine, with a significant emphasis on health impacts related to air quality and exposure to pollutants.

Samet has contributed extensively to several main fields of study including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

The subfields of study within Samet's research encompass:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Molecular Biology

Their work covers core topics such as:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Medical and Biological Ozone Research

Samet has frequently published in these venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Particle and Fibre Toxicology
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Redox Biology

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Samet reflect their focus on air pollution, protective equipment, and health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include:

  • Cardiovascular health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure, 2021, Particle and Fibre Toxicology
  • Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Filtration Efficiency of Hospital Face Mask Alternatives Available for Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Assessing the effect of beard hair lengths on face masks used as personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Omega-3 fatty acids attenuate cardiovascular effects of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution, 2022, Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Samet collaborates extensively and has several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Hao Chen
  • Haiyan Tong
  • Philip A. Bromberg
  • Syed Masood
  • Ana G. Rappold

Best Publications

  • Cytokine production by human airway epithelial cells after exposure to an air pollution particle is metal-dependent

    Jacqueline D. Carter;Andrew J. Ghio;James M. Samet;Robert B. Devlin

  • Activation of MAPKs in human bronchial epithelial cells exposed to metals

    James M. Samet;Lee M. Graves;Jacqueline Quay;Lisa A. Dailey

  • Air pollution particles induce IL-6 gene expression in human airway epithelial cells via NF-kappaB activation.

    Jacqueline L. Quay;William Reed;James Samet;Robert B. Devlin

  • Effects of aqueous extracts of PM10 filters from the Utah Valley on human airway epithelial cells

    Mark W. Frampton;Andrew J. Ghio;James M. Samet;Johnny L. Carson

  • Copper-dependent Inflammation and Nuclear Factor- κ B Activation by Particulate Air Pollution

    Thomas P. Kennedy;Andrew J. Ghio;William Reed;James Samet

  • Biologic effects of oil fly ash.

    Andrew J. Ghio;Robert Silbajoris;Johnny Lee Carson;James M. Samet

  • Diesel exhaust activates redox-sensitive transcription factors and kinases in human airways

    Jamshid Pourazar;Ian S. Mudway;James M. Samet;Ragnberth Helleday

  • Activation of the EGF receptor signaling pathway in human airway epithelial cells exposed to metals

    Weidong Wu;Lee M. Graves;Ilona Jaspers;Robert B. Devlin

  • Concentrated Ambient Ultrafine Particle Exposure Induces Cardiac Changes in Young Healthy Volunteers

    James M. Samet;Ana Rappold;Donald Graff;Wayne E. Cascio

  • Effect of Antioxidant Supplementation on Ozone-Induced Lung Injury in Human Subjects

    James M. Samet;Gary E. Hatch;Donald Horstman;Susan Steck-Scott

  • Oxidative stress and lipid mediators induced in alveolar macrophages by ultrafine particles

    Ingrid Beck-Speier;Niru Dayal;Erwin Karg;Konrad L. Maier

  • Src-dependent Phosphorylation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor on Tyrosine 845 Is Required for Zinc-induced Ras Activation *

    Weidong Wu;Lee M. Graves;Gordon N. Gill;Sarah J. Parsons

  • Zinc-induced PTEN Protein Degradation through the Proteasome Pathway in Human Airway Epithelial Cells

    Weidong Wu;Xinchao Wang;Wenli Zhang;William Reed

  • Evidence that secretory phospholipase A2 plays a role in arachidonic acid release and eicosanoid biosynthesis by mast cells.

    A N Fonteh;D A Bass;L A Marshall;M Seeds

  • Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Phillip W Clapp;Emily E Sickbert-Bennett;James M Samet;Jon Berntsen

  • Cardiovascular health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure

    Hao Chen;James M. Samet;Philip A. Bromberg;Haiyan Tong

  • Filtration Efficiency of Hospital Face Mask Alternatives Available for Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett;James M. Samet;Phillip W. Clapp;Hao Chen

  • COX-2 expression induced by diesel particles involves chromatin modification and degradation of HDAC1.

    Dongsun Cao;Philip A. Bromberg;James M. Samet

  • Zn2+-induced IL-8 expression involves AP-1, JNK, and ERK activities in human airway epithelial cells

    Yu Mee Kim;William Reed;Weidong Wu;Philip A Bromberg

  • Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation Appears to Attenuate Particulate Air Pollution–Induced Cardiac Effects and Lipid Changes in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults

    Haiyan Tong;Ana G Rappold;David Diaz-Sanchez;Susan E Steck

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Devlin
Robert B. Devlin Environmental Protection Agency
Lee M. Graves
Lee M. Graves University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alan L. Hinderliter
Alan L. Hinderliter University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Floyd H. Chilton
Floyd H. Chilton University of Arizona
Avram Gold
Avram Gold University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David B. Peden
David B. Peden University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David J. Weber
David J. Weber University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anthony J. Frew
Anthony J. Frew Royal Sussex County Hospital
H. Shelton Earp
H. Shelton Earp University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frank J. Kelly
Frank J. Kelly Imperial College London

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