Posted on 01/11/2015 1:51:08 PM PST by smokingfrog
Just two hours of exposure to diesel exhaust is enough to cause significant damage to the human body, a new UBC study concludes.
The study, led by Dr. Chris Carlsten, looked at how pollution particles affect the way genes are expressed in the body.
Sixteen non-smoking adult volunteers with asthma were put in an enclosed booth about the size of a standard bathroom, and made to breathe diluted and aged exhaust fumes equal to the air quality along a Beijing highway, or a busy port in British Columbia.
Carlsten says the impact of the pollution "exceeded our expectations."
"Quite rapidly, it turns out, we're showing in hours, you observe changes in the blood that may have long-term implications," said Carlsten.
It's believed exposure to the particles affects the chemical "coating" that can attach to parts of a person's DNA.
"That carbon-hydrogen coating, called methylation, can silence or dampen a gene, preventing it from producing a protein – sometimes to a person’s benefit, sometimes not.
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But my efex be differnt fom you. Now I wears my pants under my butt and torches liquor stores every time a po-po take out a homie.
nice! Also pricey!
Love Ducatis.
I worked in NORAD and there is the entry tunnel is about a third of a mile walk. Diesel trucks going by constantly. They would run the vehicles inside the cave.
Who thinks up this stuff?
I’m just glad they didn’t do this to any Gitmo prisoners. Sounds like torture to me.
Vin Diesel is just not that dangerous.
Twenty years on Diesel Submarines in engine rooms. Now you tell me it’s not good for me?
You’re obviously living on borrowed time. /s
It will be interesting to see if they end up being able to come in to California in non CARB compliant trucks unlike Americans.
I’m no fan of diesel, but I wonder if they’ll do a study on the harm done by ethanol? And not just to engines and the price of food.
hmm..so the offpumps folks who produce their own biodiesel are now back to square one?
>> an enclosed booth about the size of a standard bathroom, and made to breathe diluted and aged exhaust fumes
And that’s problematic? Who knew...
16 ppl in eclosed booth, size of standard bathroom.
Sound like a bad clown joke
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