Air Pollutants

"Air Pollutants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Any substance in the air which could, if present in high enough concentration, harm humans, animals, vegetation or materials. Substances include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; and volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS.

Descriptor ID	D000393
MeSH Number(s)	D27.888.284.101
Concept/Terms	Air Pollutants Air Pollutants Pollutants, Air Air Pollutants, Environmental Air Pollutants, Environmental Environmental Pollutants, Air Air Environmental Pollutants Pollutants, Air Environmental Environmental Air Pollutants Pollutants, Environmental Air

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Air Pollutants".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Chemical Actions and Uses [D27]
Toxic Actions [D27.888]
Environmental Pollutants [D27.888.284]
Air Pollutants [D27.888.284.101]

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Bar chart showing 87 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	1	0	1
2002	1	0	1
2003	1	1	2
2004	1	0	1
2005	0	1	1
2006	1	0	1
2008	3	0	3
2009	4	0	4
2010	0	1	1
2011	2	1	3
2012	1	0	1
2013	4	0	4
2014	1	4	5
2015	3	0	3
2016	2	2	4
2017	6	3	9
2018	2	1	3
2019	4	1	5
2020	4	0	4
2021	7	0	7
2022	5	0	5
2023	8	0	8
2024	5	2	7
2025	4	0	4

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Jury-Garfe N, S?nchez-Rubio M, Nardocci G, Mercado C, Pe?a-Baeza N, Ruiz-Rudolph P, Montecino M, Varela-Nallar L, van Zundert B. Urban air pollution reduces H3K9me2/me3 in hippocampal and olfactory neurons, correlating with memory and social deficits. Sci Total Environ. 2025 Oct 01; 997:180145.

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Yang PF, Ma WL, Zhang ZF, Liu LY, Xiao H, Hansen KM, Jia HL, Li L, Hu PT, Kallenborn R, Li YF. Phase Distribution, Deposition, and Precipitation Scavenging of Atmospheric Semivolatile Organic Compounds under Steady-State Partitioning Theory. Environ Sci Technol. 2025 Aug 12; 59(31):16521-16532.

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Wang K, Shi Y, Gebreyesus TG, Ma N, Zhu X, Tong L, Zhao L, Dong S, Xiao H. Size Distributions and Health Risks of Atmospheric Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Inland Urban Area of Baoding, China. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2025 Jul 18; 115(2):18.

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Famiyeh L, Chen K, Tesema FB, Kelly C, Ji D, Xiao H, Tong L, Wang Z, He J. Refining source-specific lung cancer risk assessment from PM2.5-bound PAHs: Integrating component-based potency factors and machine learning in Ningbo, China. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2025 Jun 01; 297:118174.

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Prabhakaran D, Sieber NL, Jaganathan S, Mandal S, Prabhakaran P, Walia GK, Menon JS, Rajput P, Gupta T, Mohan S, Kondal D, Rajiva A, Dutta A, Krishna B, Yajnik C, Mohan D, Ganguly E, Madhipatla K, Sharma P, Singh S, Gupta R, Ljungman P, Gupta V, Mohan V, Reddy KS, Schwartz JD. Health effects of selected environmental Exposomes Across the Life courSe in Indian populations using longitudinal cohort studies: GEOHealth HEALS Study protocol. BMJ Open. 2024 11 01; 14(10):e087445.

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Cai QL, Tong L, Zhong N, Zheng J, He MM, Xiao H. Sampling efficiency of flow-through air sampler: Effect of sampling rate. J Chromatogr A. 2024 Dec 06; 1738:465474.

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Aretz B, Doblhammer G, Heneka MT. The role of leukocytes in cognitive impairment due to long-term exposure to fine particulate matter: A large population-based mediation analysis. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec; 20(12):8715-8727.

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Chen Y, Ling Y, Liu F, Tong L, Yang M, Shi Y, Xue Y, Ye H, Xu Y, Huang C, Xiao H. Characteristics and Source Apportionment of Volatile Organic Compounds in a Coastal Industrial Area: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2024 Jul 27; 113(2):16.

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Yang PF, Ma WL, Xiao H, Hansen KM, Wang L, Sun JJ, Liu LY, Zhang ZF, Jia HL, Li YF. Temperature dependence of the rain-gas and snow-gas partition coefficients for nearly a thousand chemicals. Chemosphere. 2024 Aug; 362:142565.

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Tong L, Gu Z, Zhu X, Huang C, Hu B, Shi Y, Meng Y, Zheng J, He M, He J, Xiao H. Coastal ozone dynamics and formation regime in Eastern China: Integrating trend decomposition and machine learning techniques. J Environ Sci (China). 2025 Sep; 155:597-612.

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