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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
6745
World Ranking
7132
National Ranking
2542

Best Publications

  • Diesel Exhaust Activates and Primes Microglia: Air Pollution, Neuroinflammation, and Regulation of Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity

    Shannon Levesque;Thomas Taetzsch;Melinda E. Lull;Urmila Kodavanti

  • Pulmonary responses to oil fly ash particles in the rat differ by virtue of their specific soluble metals.

    Urmila P. Kodavanti;Russ Hauser;David C. Christiani;Zhi H. Meng

  • The spontaneously hypertensive rat as a model of human cardiovascular disease: evidence of exacerbated cardiopulmonary injury and oxidative stress from inhaled emission particulate matter.

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  • Ozone Exposure Increases Circulating Stress Hormones and Lipid Metabolites in Humans.

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  • Outdoor Air Pollution and New-Onset Airway Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.

    George D Thurston;John R Balmes;Erika Garcia;Frank D Gilliland

  • Systemic translocation of particulate matter-associated metals following a single intratracheal instillation in rats.

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  • TEMPORAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PULMONARY AND SYSTEMIC EFFECTS OF PARTICULATE MATTER IN HEALTHY AND CARDIOVASCULAR COMPROMISED RATS

    Urmila P. Kodavanti;Mette C. Schladweiler;Allen D. Ledbetter;Russ Hauser

  • Inhaled environmental combustion particles cause myocardial injury in the Wistar Kyoto rat.

    Urmila P. Kodavanti;Carolyn F. Moyer;Allen D. Ledbetter;Mette C. Schladweiler

  • Inhaled ozone (O3)-induces changes in serum metabolomic and liver transcriptomic profiles in rats.

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  • Influence of acid functionalization on the cardiopulmonary toxicity of carbon nanotubes and carbon black particles in mice

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  • Vascular and cardiac impairments in rats inhaling ozone and diesel exhaust particles.

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  • Pulmonary and Systemic Effects of Zinc-Containing Emission Particles in Three Rat Strains: Multiple Exposure Scenarios

    Urmila P. Kodavanti;Mette C. J. Schladweiler;Allen D. Ledbetter;Russ Hauser

  • Variable pulmonary responses from exposure to concentrated ambient air particles in a rat model of bronchitis.

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  • Ozone induces glucose intolerance and systemic metabolic effects in young and aged Brown Norway rats.

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  • CARDIAC AND THERMOREGULATORY EFFECTS OF INSTILLED PARTICULATE MATTER-ASSOCIATED TRANSITION METALS IN HEALTHY AND CARDIOPULMONARY-COMPROMISED RATS

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  • Animal models and mechanisms of tobacco smoke-induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

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  • Workshop summary: Phosgene-induced pulmonary toxicity revisited: Appraisal of early and late markers of pulmonary injury from animal models with emphasis on human significance

    J. Pauluhn;A. Carson;D. L. Costa;T. Gordon

  • The role of particulate matter-associated zinc in cardiac injury in rats.

    Urmila P. Kodavanti;Mette C. Schladweiler;Peter S. Gilmour;J. Grace Wallenborn

  • Manufactured and airborne nanoparticle cardiopulmonary interactions: a review of mechanisms and the possible contribution of mast cells.

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  • Stretching the stress boundary: Linking air pollution health effects to a neurohormonal stress response☆☆☆

    Urmila P. Kodavanti

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