Université de Fribourg

Reduction in (pro-)inflammatory responses of lung cells exposed in vitro to diesel exhaust treated with a non-catalyzed diesel particle filter

Steiner, Sandro ; Czerwinski, Jan ; Comte, Pierre ; Müller, Loretta L. ; Heeb, Norbert V. ; Mayer, Andreas ; Petri-Fink, Alke ; Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara

In: Atmospheric Environment, 2013, vol. 81, p. 117–124

Increasingly stringent regulation of particulate matter emissions from diesel vehicles has led to the widespread use of diesel particle filters (DPFs), the effect of which on exhaust toxicity is so far poorly understood. We exposed a cellular model of the human respiratory epithelium at the air-liquid interface to non-catalyzed wall-flow DPF-filtered diesel exhaust and compared the resulting...