The Section on Terrorism and Inhalation Disasters remains committed to evidence based, peer-reviewed medicine and research. This page provides links to key studies, journal articles, and Conference Abstracts from clinical, translational, and basic science research related to the field of inhalation disasters. Highlighted articles will come from the ATS red, blue and white journals. Click on a journal title for a pull down list of articles related to the TID section.
American Thoracic Society
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular BiologyAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
American Thoracic Society International Conference Abstracts
Other Journals and Conferences
American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Ion channels of the lung and their role in disease pathogenesis.
Bartoszewski R, Matalon S, Collawn JF. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2017 Oct 12:ajplung.00285.2017. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00285.2017. PMID: 29025712
Exposure of Neonatal Mice to Bromine Impairs Their Alveolar Development and Lung Function.
Jilling T, Ren C, Yee AJ, Aggarwal S, Halloran B, Ambalavanan N, Matalon S. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2017 Sep 14:ajplung.00315.2017. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00315.2017. PMID: 28912380
Respiratory syncytial virus infection increases chlorine-induced airway hyperresponsiveness.
Song W, Yu Z, Doran SF, Ambalavanan N, Steele C, Garantziotis S, Matalon S. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Aug 1;309(3):L205-10. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00159.2015. Epub 2015 Jun 12. PMID: 26071553
Hyaluronan mediates airway hyperresponsiveness in oxidative lung injury.
Lazrak A, Creighton J, Yu Z, Komarova S, Doran SF, Aggarwal S, Emala CW Sr, Stober VP, Trempus CS, Garantziotis S, Matalon S. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 May 1;308(9):L891-903. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00377.2014. Epub 2015 Mar 6. PMID: 25747964
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Chlorine-induced cardiopulmonary injury.
Carlisle M, Lam A, Svendsen ER, Aggarwal S, Matalon S. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 Jun;1374(1):159-67. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13091. Epub 2016 Jun 15. Review. PMID: 27303906
Role of heme in bromine-induced lung injury.
Lam A, Vetal N, Matalon S, Aggarwal S. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 Jun;1374(1):105-10. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13086. Epub 2016 May 31. Review. PMID: 27244263
Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
Heme Attenuation Ameliorates Irritant Gas Inhalation-Induced Acute Lung Injury.
Aggarwal S, Lam A, Bolisetty S, Carlisle MA, Traylor A, Agarwal A, Matalon S. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2016 Jan 10;24(2):99-112. doi: 10.1089/ars.2015.6347. Epub 2015 Dec 14. PMID: 26376667
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
Chest CT scan findings in World Trade Center workers
de la Hoz RE, Weber J, Xu D, Doucette JT, Liu X, Carson DA, Celedón JC. Chest CT scan findings in World Trade Center workers. Arch Environ Occup Health [in press, PubMed ID 29543564, DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2018.1452712].
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Upregulation of autophagy decreases chlorine-induced mitochondrial injury and lung inflammation.
Jurkuvenaite A, Benavides GA, Komarova S, Doran SF, Johnson M, Aggarwal S, Zhang J, Darley-Usmar VM, Matalon S. Free Radic Biol Med. 2015 Aug;85:83-94. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2015.03.039. Epub 2015 Apr 13. PMID: 25881550
Hypertension
Mechanisms and Treatment of Halogen Inhalation-Induced Pulmonary and Systemic Injuries in Pregnant Mice.
Lambert JA, Carlisle MA, Lam A, Aggarwal S, Doran S, Ren C, Bradley WE, Dell'Italia L, Ambalavanan N, Ford DA, Patel RP, Jilling T, Matalon S. Hypertension. 2017 Aug;70(2):390-400. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09466. Epub 2017 Jun 12. PMID: 28607126
Journal of Lipid Research
Formation of chlorinated lipids post-chlorine gas exposure.
Ford DA, Honavar J, Albert CJ, Duerr MA, Oh JY, Doran S, Matalon S, Patel RP. J Lipid Res. 2016 Aug;57(8):1529-40. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M069005. Epub 2016 Jun 20. PMID: 27324796
Lung
Increased Airway Wall Thickness is Associated with Adverse Longitudinal First–Second Forced Expiratory Volume Trajectories of Former World Trade Center workers
de la Hoz RE, Liu X, Doucette JT, Reeves AP, Bienenfeld LA, Wisnivesky JP, Celedón JC, Lynch DA, San José Estépar R. Increased airway wall thickness is associated with adverse longitudinal first-second forced expiratory volume trajectories of former World Trade Center workers. Lung [in press, PubMed ID 29797069, DOI: 10.1007/S00408-018-0125-7].
Nitric Oxide
Measuring nitrate reductase activity from human and rodent tongues.
Ahmed KA, Nichols AL, Honavar J, Dransfield MT, Matalon S, Patel RP. Nitric Oxide. 2017 Jun 1;66:62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.niox.2017.04.001. Epub 2017 Apr 5. PMID: 28390999
Physiological Reports
Chlorine inhalation-induced myocardial depression and failure.
Zaky A, Bradley WE, Lazrak A, Zafar I, Doran S, Ahmad A, White CW, Dell'Italia LJ, Matalon S, Ahmad S. Physiol Rep. 2015 Jun;3(6). pii: e12439. doi: 10.14814/phy2.12439. PMID: 26109193
Toxicology Letters
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