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- Title
Particulate matter (PM) research centers (1999-2005) and the role of interdisciplinary center-based research.
- Authors
Fanning, Elinor W; Froines, John R; Utell, Mark J; Lippmann, Morton; Oberdörster, Gunter; Frampton, Mark; Godleski, John; Larson, Tim V
- Abstract
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded five academic centers in 1999 to address the uncertainties in exposure, toxicity, and health effects of airborne particulate matter (PM) identified in the "Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter" of the National Research Council (NRC). The centers were structured to promote interdisciplinary approaches to address research priorities of the NRC. In this report, we present selected accomplishments from the first 6 years of the PM Centers, with a focus on the advantages afforded by the interdisciplinary, center-based research approach. The review highlights advances in the area of ultrafine particles and traffic-related health effects as well as cardiovascular and respiratory effects, mechanisms, susceptibility, and PM exposure and characterization issues.
- Publication
Environmental health perspectives, 2009, Vol 117, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.11543