Citation

Malaviya R, Sunil VR, Venosa A, Vayas KN, Heck DE, Laskin JD, Laskin DL. Toxicol. Lett. 2015; 244: 2-7.

Affiliation

Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. Electronic address: laskin@eohsi.rutgers.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.10.011

PMID

26478570

Abstract

Exposure of humans and animals to vesicants, including sulfur mustard (SM) and nitrogen mustard (NM), causes severe and debilitating damage to the respiratory tract. Both acute and long term pathological consequences are observed in the lung following a single exposure to these vesicants. Evidence from our laboratories and others suggest that macrophages and inflammatory mediators they release play an important role in mustard-induced lung injury. In this paper, the pathogenic effects of SM and NM on the lung are reviewed, along with the potential role of inflammatory macrophages and mediators they release in mustard-induced pulmonary toxicity.

Language: en