Table 2.
Total metal concentrations (ng/well) present in each aqueous extracts and cytokine secretions (pg/ml) (standard deviation; n = 3) produced by BEAS cells.
| Location | Treatment (0.60%)
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| Trace element (ng/well)
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Cytokines (pg/ml)
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ng/well Total metal | |||||||||
| Al | As | Cd | Fe | Ni | Pb | V | IL-8 | IL-6 | MCP-1 | ||
| Control | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 108.6 (±13.7) | 73.0 (±4.2) | 55.2 (±10.9) | – |
| Lab 1 | 4.26 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.74 | 0.26 | 0.27 | 0.10 | 122.8 (±8.6) | 63.4 (±2.5) | 69.0 (±4.2) | 5.73 |
| Lab 2 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 110.5 (±4.5) | 71.0 (±6.6) | 63.8 (±1.8) | 0.69 |
| Lab 3 | 0.49 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.74 | 0.22 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 103.7 (±12.8) | 67.1 (±8.9) | 61.3 (±0.9) | 1.61 |
| Outdoor | 2.15 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 7.09 | 0.89 | 0.18 | 3.85 | 124.4 (±8.7) | 59.7 (±8.5) | 69.3 (±1.0) | 14.20 |
| Treatment (20%) | |||||||||||
| Control | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 306.9 (±23.3) | 129.2 (±4.9) | 47.1 (±2.0) | – |
| Lab 1 | 142.1 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 24.7 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 3.2 | 248.5 (±4.2) | 155.6 (±10.9) | 24.6 (±1.5) | 191.2 |
| Lab 2 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 4.3 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 3.9 | – | – | – | 21.8 |
| Lab 3 | 16.4 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 24.8 | 7.2 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 206.3 (±6.3) | 201.6 (±5.7) | 30.0 (±3.0) | 53.7 |
| Outdoor | 71.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 236.4 | 29.5 | 5.9 | 128.2 | 226.7 (±34.4) | 143.0 (±34.2) | 39.9 (±5.2) | 473.5 |
| Treatment (50%) | |||||||||||
| Control | 511.3 (±116.4) | 165.7 (±43.2) | 80.6 (±7.6) | ||||||||
| Lab 1 | 355.3 | 8.2 | 0.4 | 61.8 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 8.1 | 168.5 (±0.7) | 22.9 (±3.0) | 6.3 (±3.4) | 477.9 |
| Lab 2 | 9.9 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 10.7 | 19.2 | 1.9 | 9.7 | 177.0 (±29.7) | 25.6 (±0.8) | 3.0 (±0.1) | 57.7 |
| Lab 3 | 41.0 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 62.0 | 18.1 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 390.4 (±60.7) | 79.3 (±5.2) | 7.6 (±2.5) | 134.1 |
| Outdoor | 178.9 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 591.0 | 73.8 | 14.8 | 320.6 | 409.0 (±53.4) | 61.1 (±1.8) | 31.3 (±9.3) | 1183.6 |