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Background <p>While studies demonstrating the adverse effects of air pollution on human health are accumulating, studies on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are scarce. However, SOA accounts for a significant portion of airborne particulate matter. In particular, pinene biogenic SOA contributes predominantly to SOA loading in the outdoor atmosphere of natural and urban areas and are also emitted indoors because of the presence of terpenes in numerous consumer products. Our aim was to study the immune consequences of acute exposure to β-pinene ozonolysis gaseous and SOA products in mice. This reaction was generated in an atmospheric simulation chamber, and the mice were exposed to the particulate and gaseous products, to the gaseous products only, or to synthetic air 2&#xa0;h per day for 3 days in real time in a whole-body inhalation chamber. Exposures were performed in adulthood or <i>in utero</i>. Since some adverse effects only occur in individuals weakened by existing immune activation, such as low-grade inflammation, the immune response was measured in the steady state or in a state of moderate systemic inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide administration.</p> Results <p>Exposure of healthy adult mice caused minor immunosuppression in the lungs. However, in adult mice weakened by moderate systemic inflammation, the same exposure conditions revealed that mice exposed to the β-pinene ozonolysis particulate and gaseous products presented deficient pulmonary and systemic immune responses, including excessive recruitment of B lymphocytes, CD4<sup>+</sup> T lymphocytes, CD11b<sup>+</sup> dendritic cells, inflammatory monocytes and neutrophils in the lungs and defective recruitment of regulatory T cells in the spleen. In offspring exposed to β-pinene ozonolysis products <i>in utero</i>, the LPS-induced upregulation of <i>Ccl2</i>, <i>Cxcl10</i> and <i>Icam1</i> mRNA levels in the lungs and the activation of dendritic cells in the spleen were excessive in female mice. The male offspring developed a normal response to moderate systemic inflammation, except for impaired activation of CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells and increased activation of CD103<sup>+</sup> dendritic cells in the spleen.</p> Conclusion <p>In mice, pulmonary and systemic immune reactions in response to moderate systemic inflammation are dysregulated by exposure to common secondary oxidation products, highlighting interest in the role of these neglected atmospheric compounds in immune disease development and susceptibility to infections.</p>

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Immune consequences of exposure to β-pinene oxidation aerosols: adult versus gestational murine models

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    2025年5月30日

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  • Muriel Pichavant,
  • Madjid Djouina,
  • Gwenola Kervoaze,
  • Christophe Waxin,
  • Nicolas Houzel,
  • Emeline Driencourt,
  • Cécile Thiry,
  • Cécile Vignal,
  • Cécile Coeur,
  • Mathilde Body-Malapel

摘要

Background

While studies demonstrating the adverse effects of air pollution on human health are accumulating, studies on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are scarce. However, SOA accounts for a significant portion of airborne particulate matter. In particular, pinene biogenic SOA contributes predominantly to SOA loading in the outdoor atmosphere of natural and urban areas and are also emitted indoors because of the presence of terpenes in numerous consumer products. Our aim was to study the immune consequences of acute exposure to β-pinene ozonolysis gaseous and SOA products in mice. This reaction was generated in an atmospheric simulation chamber, and the mice were exposed to the particulate and gaseous products, to the gaseous products only, or to synthetic air 2 h per day for 3 days in real time in a whole-body inhalation chamber. Exposures were performed in adulthood or in utero. Since some adverse effects only occur in individuals weakened by existing immune activation, such as low-grade inflammation, the immune response was measured in the steady state or in a state of moderate systemic inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide administration.

Results

Exposure of healthy adult mice caused minor immunosuppression in the lungs. However, in adult mice weakened by moderate systemic inflammation, the same exposure conditions revealed that mice exposed to the β-pinene ozonolysis particulate and gaseous products presented deficient pulmonary and systemic immune responses, including excessive recruitment of B lymphocytes, CD4+ T lymphocytes, CD11b+ dendritic cells, inflammatory monocytes and neutrophils in the lungs and defective recruitment of regulatory T cells in the spleen. In offspring exposed to β-pinene ozonolysis products in utero, the LPS-induced upregulation of Ccl2, Cxcl10 and Icam1 mRNA levels in the lungs and the activation of dendritic cells in the spleen were excessive in female mice. The male offspring developed a normal response to moderate systemic inflammation, except for impaired activation of CD4+ T cells and increased activation of CD103+ dendritic cells in the spleen.

Conclusion

In mice, pulmonary and systemic immune reactions in response to moderate systemic inflammation are dysregulated by exposure to common secondary oxidation products, highlighting interest in the role of these neglected atmospheric compounds in immune disease development and susceptibility to infections.