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Subject area	Environmental Science
More specific subject area	Air quality, particulate matter, toxicology and health
Type of data	Table
How data was acquired	Data acquired by literature search and normalization of data from different exposure protocols based on a model that calculates concentration, inhalation rates and particulate matter exposure dose. The selection filters applied to build the dataset were: published works and data were published in 2017, in the English language, and were referenced in indexed journals (with editorial board, peer reviewed and included in Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports). Also, the papers selected were based on mice and/or rat models, and the protocol exposed the respiratory tract to PM to study the health effects in one or more specific endpoints (respiratory tract, pulmonary and extra-pulmonary). Given these conditions, a search string was used to query PubMed Particularly, the following keywords were used: (particulate matter) AND (mice or mouse or rats or rat) AND (inhalation or instillation). Apart from the most recent articles published in 2017, we also included seminal papers from previous years.
Data format	Calculated and analysed
Experimental factors	Data were compiled from experimental design description from 75 different research articles (155 toxicological experiments)
Experimental features	We used a model to calculate inhalation rates, concentrations and PM exposure dose from 155 different toxicological experiments
Data source location	Vila Velha, Brazil, Universidade Vila Velha
Data accessibility	Data is provided with this article
Related research article	F. Curbani, F.O. Busato, M.M. Nascimento, D.N. Olivieri, C.E. Tadokoro, Inhale, exhale: why particulate matter exposure in animal models are so acute? Environmental Pollution. In Press [1]