Exposure to a firefighting overhaul environment without respiratory protection increases immune dysregulation and lung disease risk

Autor: Vincent L. Tir, Kenneth W. Fent, Denise L. Smith, Gregory G. Freund, Jenny Drnevich, Stephen J. Gainey, Gavin P. Horn, M.L. Oelschlager, Albert E. Towers, Stephen Kerber
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Lung Diseases
Male
Pulmonology
Physiology
Molecular biology
Gene Expression
lcsh:Medicine
medicine.disease_cause
Biochemistry
Cohort Studies
0302 clinical medicine
Sequencing techniques
RAR-related orphan receptor gamma
Risk Factors
Immune Physiology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Respiratory system
Respiratory Protective Devices
lcsh:Science
Lung
Inhalation Exposure
Multidisciplinary
Immune System Proteins
Mammalian Genomics
RNA sequencing
Animal Models
Genomics
030210 environmental & occupational health
medicine.anatomical_structure
Experimental Organism Systems
Immune System Diseases
Models
Animal

Engineering and Technology
Research Article
Immunology
Mouse Models
Air Pollutants
Occupational

Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases
Research and Analysis Methods
Antibodies
Fires
03 medical and health sciences
Immune system
Model Organisms
Downregulation and upregulation
Occupational Exposure
DNA-binding proteins
medicine
Genetics
Animals
Carcinogen
Smoke
business.industry
Fire Suppression Technology
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
Proteins
Immune dysregulation
Mice
Inbred C57BL

Fire Engineering
030104 developmental biology
Molecular biology techniques
Gene Expression Regulation
Animal Genomics
Firefighters
lcsh:Q
business
Transcriptome
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 8, p e0201830 (2018)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Firefighting activities appear to increase the risk of acute and chronic lung disease, including malignancy. While self-contained breathing apparatuses (SCBA) mitigate exposures to inhalable asphyxiates and carcinogens, firefighters frequently remove SCBA during overhaul when the firegrounds appear clear of visible smoke. Using a mouse model of overhaul without airway protection, the impact of fireground environment exposure on lung gene expression was assessed to identify transcripts potentially critical to firefighter-related chronic pulmonary illnesses. Lung tissue was collected 2 hrs post-overhaul and evaluated via whole genome transcriptomics by RNA-seq. Although gas metering showed that the fireground overhaul levels of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen cyanine (HCN), hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and oxygen (O2) were within NIOSH ceiling recommendations, 3852 lung genes were differentially expressed when mice exposed to overhaul were compared to mice on the fireground but outside the overhaul environment. Importantly, overhaul exposure was associated with an up/down-regulation of 86 genes with a fold change of 1.5 or greater (p
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