PMID- 25162721 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150421 LR - 20140828 IS - 1091-7691 (Electronic) IS - 0895-8378 (Linking) VI - 26 IP - 11 DP - 2014 Sep TI - The National Environmental Respiratory Center (NERC) experiment in multi-pollutant air quality health research: IV. Vascular effects of repeated inhalation exposure to a mixture of five inorganic gases. PG - 691-6 LID - 10.3109/08958378.2014.947448 [doi] AB - An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that a mixture of five inorganic gases could reproduce certain central vascular effects of repeated inhalation exposure of apolipoprotein E-deficient mice to diesel or gasoline engine exhaust. The hypothesis resulted from preceding multiple additive regression tree (MART) analysis of a composition-concentration-response database of mice exposed by inhalation to the exhausts and other complex mixtures. The five gases were the predictors most important to MART models best fitting the vascular responses. Mice on high-fat diet were exposed 6 h/d, 7 d/week for 50 d to clean air or a mixture containing 30.6 ppm CO, 20.5 ppm NO, 1.4 ppm NO(2), 0.5 ppm SO(2), and 2.0 ppm NH(3) in air. The gas concentrations were below the maxima in the preceding studies but in the range of those in exhaust exposure levels that caused significant effects. Five indicators of stress and pro-atherosclerotic responses were measured in aortic tissue. The exposure increased all five response indicators, with the magnitude of effect and statistical significance varying among the indicators and depending on inclusion or exclusion of an apparent outlying control. With the outlier excluded, three responses approximated predicted values and two fell below predictions. The results generally supported evidence that the five gases drove the effects of exhaust, and thus supported the potential of the MART approach for identifying putative causal components of complex mixtures. FAU - Mauderly, J L AU - Mauderly JL AD - Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute , Albuquerque, NM , USA . FAU - Kracko, D AU - Kracko D FAU - Brower, J AU - Brower J FAU - Doyle-Eisele, M AU - Doyle-Eisele M FAU - McDonald, J D AU - McDonald JD FAU - Lund, A K AU - Lund AK FAU - Seilkop, S K AU - Seilkop SK LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - England TA - Inhal Toxicol JT - Inhalation toxicology JID - 8910739 RN - 0 (Air Pollutants) RN - 0 (Apolipoproteins E) RN - 0 (Gases) RN - 0 (Gasoline) RN - 0 (Oxides) RN - 0 (Sulfur Compounds) RN - 0 (Vehicle Emissions) RN - 13827-32-2 (sulfur monoxide) RN - 31C4KY9ESH (Nitric Oxide) RN - 7664-41-7 (Ammonia) RN - 7U1EE4V452 (Carbon Monoxide) RN - K50XQU1029 (Nitrous Oxide) SB - IM MH - Air Pollutants/*chemistry/toxicity MH - Ammonia/chemistry/toxicity MH - Animals MH - Apolipoproteins E/genetics/metabolism MH - Carbon Monoxide/chemistry/toxicity MH - Cardiovascular Diseases/*chemically induced MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Gases/*chemistry/toxicity MH - Gasoline/*analysis MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Nitric Oxide/chemistry/toxicity MH - Nitrous Oxide/chemistry/toxicity MH - Oxides/chemistry/toxicity MH - Sulfur Compounds/chemistry/toxicity MH - Vehicle Emissions/*analysis/toxicity OTO - NOTNLM OT - Air pollution OT - ammonia OT - carbon monoxide OT - cardiovascular OT - nitric oxide OT - nitrogen dioxide OT - nitrogen oxides OT - sulfur dioxide EDAT- 2014/08/28 06:00 MHDA- 2015/04/22 06:00 CRDT- 2014/08/28 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/04/22 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.3109/08958378.2014.947448 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Inhal Toxicol. 2014 Sep;26(11):691-6. doi: 10.3109/08958378.2014.947448.