Particulate Air Pollution Exposure and Expression of Viral and Human MicroRNAs in Blood: The Beijing Truck Driver Air Pollution Study
Author(s) -
Lifang Hou,
Jitendra Barupal,
Wei Zhang,
Yinan Zheng,
Lei Liu,
Xiao Zhang,
Dou Chang,
John P. McCracken,
Anaité Díaz-Artiga,
Valeria Motta,
Marco Sánchez-Guerra,
Katherine Rose Wolf,
Pier Alberto Bertazzi,
Joel Schwartz,
Sheng Wang,
Andrea Baccarelli
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1408519
Subject(s) - air pollution , microrna , particulates , biology , beijing , environmental pollution , population , immunology , medicine , environmental health , gene , genetics , environmental science , ecology , environmental protection , political science , law , china
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional gene suppressors and potential mediators of environmental effects. In addition to human miRNAs, viral miRNAs expressed from latent viral sequences are detectable in human cells.
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