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Indoor air toxicity assessments using neutrophils
Authors: Lilius Esa-Matti, Suominen Eetu, Atosuo Janne
Editors: N/A
Conference name: International Conference of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
Publisher: International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate
Publication year: 2016
Book title : INDOOR AIR 2016: 14th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate
ISBN: 978-0-9846855-5-4
Web address : https://www.isiaq.org/conference_proceedings.php
The implementation of various neutrophil activities has been recently applied in toxicological assessments. The generation of a series of reactive oxygen species is a key event in the phagocytosis activity of neutrophils. These processes generate photon emission, chemiluminescence (CL). This native CL can be amplified with luminol. Zymosan, a cell wall preparate of a yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, opsonized in serum, provides a very strong activating effect on neutrophils and an intense luminol-amplified CL signal emerges. When, in addition to opsonized zymosan, toxic samples were added to the reaction mixture the CL signal was dose-dependently reduced. An EC50 value was determined from the dose curve where the CL signal was reduced 50 %. An indoor dust sample extracted with water from a moisture-damaged object had an EC50 value of 72 μg/ml in the neutrophil toxicity test. Testing in vivo indoor air toxicity on humans starts in spring 2016. Here were present toxicity experiments with test animals.