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Bruce Urch
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Air Pollution, Physical Activity, and Cardiovascular Function of Patients With Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Indoor Versus Outdoor Activity.
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2020
Metals and oxidative potential in urban particulate matter influence systemic inflammatory and neural biomarkers: A controlled exposure study.
Environment international · 2018
The Pollution Particulate Concentrator (PoPCon): A platform to investigate the effects of particulate air pollutants on viral infectivity.
The Science of the total environment · 2018
18 publications.
Air Pollution, Physical Activity, and Cardiovascular Function of Patients With Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Indoor Versus Outdoor Activity.
Liu L, Urch B, Nanthakumar K, Chen L, Smith-Doiron M, Brook JR, Speck M, Silverman F, Stieb DM
Metals and oxidative potential in urban particulate matter influence systemic inflammatory and neural biomarkers: A controlled exposure study.
Liu L, Urch B, Szyszkowicz M, Evans G, Speck M, Van Huang A, Leingartner K, Shutt RH, Pelletier G, Gold DR, Brook JR, Godri Pollitt K, Silverman FS
The Pollution Particulate Concentrator (PoPCon): A platform to investigate the effects of particulate air pollutants on viral infectivity.
Groulx N, Urch B, Duchaine C, Mubareka S, Scott JA
Reply to Lucock et al.: Significance of interpretation and misinterpretation of a small mechanistic study.
Zhong J, Speck M, Urch B, Silverman F, Gold DR, Koutrakis P, Baccarelli AA
B-vitamin Supplementation Mitigates Effects of Fine Particles on Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction and Inflammation: A Pilot Human Intervention Trial.
Zhong J, Trevisi L, Urch B, Lin X, Speck M, Coull BA, Liss G, Thompson A, Wu S, Wilson A, Koutrakis P, Silverman F, Gold DR, Baccarelli AA
Influence of exposure to coarse, fine and ultrafine urban particulate matter and their biological constituents on neural biomarkers in a randomized controlled crossover study.
Liu L, Urch B, Szyszkowicz M, Speck M, Leingartner K, Shutt R, Pelletier G, Gold DR, Scott JA, Brook JR, Thorne PS, Silverman FS
B vitamins attenuate the epigenetic effects of ambient fine particles in a pilot human intervention trial.
Zhong J, Karlsson O, Wang G, Li J, Guo Y, Lin X, Zemplenyi M, Sanchez-Guerra M, Trevisi L, Urch B, Speck M, Liang L, Coull BA, Koutrakis P, Silverman F, Gold DR, Wu T, Baccarelli AA
Effects of urban fine particulate matter and ozone on HDL functionality.
Ramanathan G, Yin F, Speck M, Tseng CH, Brook JR, Silverman F, Urch B, Brook RD, Araujo JA
Endotoxin and β-1,3-d-Glucan in Concentrated Ambient Particles Induce Rapid Increase in Blood Pressure in Controlled Human Exposures.
Zhong J, Urch B, Speck M, Coull BA, Koutrakis P, Thorne PS, Scott J, Liu L, Brook RD, Behbod B, Gibson H, Silverman F, Mittleman MA, Baccarelli AA, Gold DR
The combined effects of physicochemical properties of size-fractionated ambient particulate matter on in vitro toxicity in human A549 lung epithelial cells.
Akhtar US, Rastogi N, McWhinney RD, Urch B, Chow CW, Evans GJ, Scott JA
Frequent collaborators
- Occupational & Environmental Health Division
- Medicine/Cardiology
- Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Medicine
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar
Medicine/Cardiology
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Chung-Wai Chow
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2014
David Wasserstein
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
1 shared papers, latest 2010
James Scott
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Aaron Thompson
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2017
John Floras
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Samira Mubareka
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
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