{"id":255401,"date":"2026-05-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/inhaled-fine-particulate-matter-travels-beyond-the-lungs-to-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:45:10","slug":"inhaled-fine-particulate-matter-travels-beyond-the-lungs-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/inhaled-fine-particulate-matter-travels-beyond-the-lungs-to-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhaled fine particulate matter travels beyond the lungs to the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1128437\">Inhaled fine particulate matter travels beyond the lungs to the brain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1128437\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1128437<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 00:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checking the fine particulate matter levels along with the weather every morning has become a daily routine. Research continues to show that fine particulate matter affects not only the respiratory system but also the brain and overall health; prolonged exposure can lead not only to reduced lung function but also to inflammatory responses in various organs. For these reasons, these particles are recognized as an environmental issue directly linked to public health.<\/p>\n<p>However, where fine particulate matter moves within the body and how it is distributed after inhalation have not yet been clearly understood. In previous experiments simulating exposure to fine particulate matter, technical limitations made it difficult to quantitatively how much of the particles reached individual organs. As a result, researchers have struggled to accurately determine their actual distribution. Until now, assessments have largely relied on rough estimates focused on the lungs, where these particles are expected to accumulate the most.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Drs. Byung-Yong Yu and Gwan-Ho Lee at the Advanced Analysis and Data Center of the\u00a0Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST; President Sang-Rok Oh)\u00a0announced that it has developed a new analytical platform that can precisely measure the accumulation of fine particulate matter in individual organs, overcoming the limitations of existing analytical technologies. The study is significant because it presents a technology capable of quantitatively measuring even trace amounts of fine particulate matter that reach individual organs after small animals are exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of these particles.<\/p>\n<p>The research team produced fine particulate matter labeled with radiocarbon (\u00b9\u2074C) and conducted exposure experiments using the labeled particles. By combining this approach with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), a technique capable of detecting and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1128437\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhaled fine particulate matter travels beyond the lungs to the brain https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1128437 Publish Date: 2026-05-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/3b43a3c7-0ece-482a-9fe2-37587edf2870\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-255401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255404,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255401\/revisions\/255404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}