INHALATION OF POORLY SOLUBLE PARTICLES. II. INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE SURFACE AREA ON INFLAMMATION AND CLEARANCE

Authors: Tran, C.L.¹; Buchanan, D.¹; Cullen, R.T.¹; Searl, A.¹; Jones, A.D.¹; Donaldson, K.²

Source: Inhalation Toxicology, Volume 12, Number 12, 10 December 2000 , pp. 1113-1126(14)

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Abstract:

In this article the volumetric overload hypothesis, which predicts the impairment of clearance of particles deposited in the lung in terms of particle volume, is reevaluated. The degree to which simple expressions of retained lung burden explain pulmonary responses to overload was investigated using data from a series of chronic inhalation experiments on rats with two poorly soluble dusts, titanium dioxide and barium sulfate. The results indicated that the difference between the dusts in the level of inflammation and translocation to the lymph nodes could be explained most simply when the lung burden was expressed as total particle surface area. The shape of the statistical relationship for both lung responses indicated the presence of a threshold at approximately 200-300 cm2 of lung burden. On the basis of this and other similar results, a hypothesis regarding a generic mechanism for the impairment of clearance and associated lung responses is proposed for such ''low-toxicity'' dusts.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08958370050166796

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2: Department of Biological Sciences, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Publication date: 2000-12-10

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