• Spatial trends of chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in air and soil in a tropical urban, suburban, and rural environment 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, anders Røsrud; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Ntapanta, Samwel Moses; Mmochi, Aviti John; Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are large knowledge gaps concerning environmental levels and fate of many organic pollutants, particularly for chemicals of emerging concern in tropical regions of the Global South. In this study, we investigated the ...
    • Decitabine potentiates efficacy of doxorubicin in a preclinical trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive breast cancer models 

      Buociková, Verona; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Pilalis, Eleftherios; Mastrokalou, Chara; Miklíková, Svetlana; Cihova, Marina; Poturnayova, Alexandra; Mackova, Katarina; Bábelová, Andrea; Trnkova, Lenka; El Yamani, Naouale; Zheng, Congying; Rios-Mondragon, Ivan; Labudova, Martina; Csaderova, Lucia; Kuracinova, Kristina Mikus; Makovicky, Peter; Kučerová, Lucia; Matuskova, Miroslava; Cimpan, Mihaela-Roxana; Dusinska, Maria; Babal, Pavel; Chatziioannou, Aristotelis; Gábelová, Alena; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Smolkova, Bozena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Acquired drug resistance and metastasis in breast cancer (BC) are coupled with epigenetic deregulation of gene expression. Epigenetic drugs, aiming to reverse these aberrant transcriptional patterns and sensitize cancer ...
    • Increasing Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic Contaminants in a Dated Sediment Core From East-Africa 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Christensen, Guttorm N; Mmochi, Aviti John; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Temporal trends of industrial organic contaminants can show how environmental burdens respond to changes in production, regulation, and other anthropogenic and environmental factors. Numerous studies have documented such ...
    • Målinger av miljøgifter i luft ved Franzefoss Eide på Sotra og Husøya ved Kristiansund 

      Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Vik, Aasmund Fahre; Mortensen, Tore; Andresen, Erik; Bæk, Kine; Davanger, Kirsten; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Gundersen, Hans; Hanssen, Linda; Harju, Mikael; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Röhler, Laura; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Skaar, Jøran Solnes (NILU rapport;26/2022, Research report, 2022)
      NILU har gjennomført måleprogram for konsentrasjoner i luft ved Franzefoss Gjenvinning AS sine anlegg ved Eide på Sotra og ved Husøya ved Kristiansund. Ved Eide ble det tatt prøver i luft og analysert for prioriterte ...
    • One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science–policy body on chemicals and waste 

      Brack, Werner; Barcelo Culleres, Damia; Boxall, Alistair B. A.; Budzinski, Hélène; Castiglioni, Sara; Covaci, Adrian; Dulio, Valeria; Escher, Beate I.; Fantke, Peter; Kandie, Faith; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Hernández, Félix J.; Hilscherová, Klara; Hollender, Juliane; Hollert, Henner; Jahnke, Annika; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Khan, Stuart J.; Kortenkamp, Andreas; Kümmerer, Klaus; Lalonde, Brice; Lamoree, Marja H.; Levi, Yves; Lara Martín, Pablo Antonio; Montagner, Cassiana C.; Mougin, Christian; Msagati, Titus; Oehlmann, Jörg; Posthuma, Leo; Reid, Malcolm James; Reinhard, Martin; Richardson, Susan D.; Rostkowski, Pawel; Schymanski, Emma; Schneider, Flurina; Slobodnik, Jaroslav; Shibata, Yasuyuki; Snyder, Shane Allen; Fabriz Sodré, Fernando; Teodorovic, Ivana; Thomas, Kevin V; Umbuzeiro, Gisela A.; Viet, Pham Hung; Yew-Hoong, Karina Gin; Zhang, Xiaowei; Zuccato, Ettore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy body has recently been suggested. We ...
    • Health impacts of PM2.5 originating from residential wood combustion in four nordic cities 

      Orru, Hans; Olstrup, Henrik; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Segersson, David; Geels, Camilla; Tamm, Tanel; Riikonen, Kari; Maragkidou, Androniki; Sigsgaard, Torben; Brandt, Jørgen; Grythe, Henrik; Forsberg, Bertil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Residential wood combustion (RWC) is one of the largest sources of fine particles (PM2.5) in the Nordic cities. The current study aims to calculate the related health effects in four studied city areas in Sweden, Finland, ...
    • Målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon og REC Solar. Januar 2021 – desember 2021. 

      Hak, Claudia; Teigland, Even Kristian; Andresen, Erik (NILU rapport;6/2022, Research report, 2022)
      På oppdrag fra Elkem Carbon AS har NILU utført målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon og REC Solar i Vågsbygd (Kristiansand kommune). Elkem Carbon har i sin tillatelse fra Miljødirektoratet krav om å gjennomføre ...
    • Re-evaluation and Homogenization of Aerosol Optical Depth Observations in Svalbard (ReHearsol). RCN Project No: 311250/E40 - ReHearsol Final Report 

      Hansen, Georg H.; Zielinski, Tymon; Pakszys, Paulina; Ritter, Christoph; Gilardoni, Stefania; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Kouremeti, Natalia; Mateos, David; Herrero, Sara; Kazadzis, Stelios; Mazzola, Mauro; Stebel, Kerstin (NILU report;3/2022, Research report, 2022)
      The aim of this project was to collect, integrate and analyse observations of climate-relevant aerosol parameters (aerosol optical depth (AOD), Ångstrøm exponent (AE), black carbon (BC)) in and around Svalbard. These ...
    • Advanced Respiratory Models for Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials. Performance of Mono-, Co- and Tricultures 

      Camassa, Laura Maria Azzurra; Elje, Elisabeth; Mariussen, Espen; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Dusinska, Maria; Zienolddiny-Narui, Shanbeh; Rundén-Pran, Elise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Advanced in vitro models are needed to support next-generation risk assessment (NGRA), moving from hazard assessment based mainly on animal studies to the application of new alternative methods (NAMs). Advanced models must ...
    • Do cytotoxicity and cell death cause false positive results in the in vitro comet assay? 

      Azqueta, Amaya; Stopper, Helga; Zegura, Bojana; Dusinska, Maria; Møller, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The comet assay is used to measure DNA damage induced by chemical and physical agents. High concentrations of test agents may cause cytotoxicity or cell death, which may give rise to false positive results in the comet ...
    • Decoupling Emission Reductions and Trade-Offs of Policies in Norway Based on a Bottom-Up Traffic Emission Model 

      Grythe, Henrik; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Høyem, Harald; Weydahl, Torleif (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The way Norway is spearheading electrification in the transport sector is of global interest. In this study, we used the Norwegian Emissions from Road Vehicle Exhaust (NERVE) model, a bottom-up high-resolution traffic ...
    • Population pharmacokinetic modeling of CSF to blood clearance: prospective tracer study of 161 patients under work-up for CSF disorders 

      Hovd, Markus Herberg; Mariussen, Espen; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Lashkarivand, Aslan; Christensen, Hege; Ringstad, Geir; Eide, Per Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Quantitative measurements of cerebrospinal fluid to blood clearance has previously not been established for neurological diseases. Possibly, variability in cerebrospinal fluid clearance may affect the underlying ...
    • Population pharmacokinetic modeling of CSF to blood clearance: prospective tracer study of 161 patients under work-up for CSF disorders 

      Hovd, Markus Herberg; Mariussen, Espen; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Lashkarivand, Aslan; Christensen, Hege; Ringstad, Geir; Eide, Per Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Quantitative measurements of cerebrospinal fluid to blood clearance has previously not been established for neurological diseases. Possibly, variability in cerebrospinal fluid clearance may affect the underlying ...
    • Potential environmental impact of bromoform from Asparagopsis farming in Australia 

      Jia, Yue; Quack, Birgit; Kinley, Robert D.; Pisso, Ignacio; Tegtmeier, Susann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      To mitigate the rumen enteric methane (CH4) produced by ruminant livestock, Asparagopsis taxiformis is proposed as an additive to ruminant feed. During the cultivation of Asparagopsis taxiformis in the sea or in terrestrially ...
    • Springtime nitrogen oxides and tropospheric ozone in Svalbard: results from the measurement station network 

      Dekhtyareva, Alena; Hermanson, Mark H.; NIkulina, Anna; Hermansen, Ove; Svendby, Tove Marit; Holmén, Kim; Graversen, Rune Grand (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Svalbard is a remote and scarcely populated Arctic archipelago and is considered to be mostly influenced by long-range-transported air pollution. However, there are also local emission sources such as coal and diesel power ...
    • Microplastics in the atmosphere and cryosphere in the circumpolar North: a case for multicompartment monitoring 

      Hamilton, Bonnie M.; Jantunen, Liisa; Bergmann, Melanie; Vorkamp, Katrin; Aherne, Julian; Magnusson, Kerstin; Herzke, Dorte; Granberg, Maria; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Gomiero, Alessio; Peeken, Ilka (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The atmosphere and cryosphere have recently garnered considerable attention due to their role in transporting microplastics to and within the Arctic, and between freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. While ...
    • The Emissions Fractions Approach to Assessing the Long-Range Transport Potential of Organic Chemicals 

      Breivik, Knut; McLachlan, Michael S.; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The assessment of long-range transport potential (LRTP) is enshrined in several frameworks for chemical regulation such as the Stockholm Convention. Screening for LRTP is commonly done with the OECD Pov and LRTP Screening ...
    • What caused a record high PM10 episode in northern Europe in October 2020? 

      Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Aas, Wenche; Eckhardt, Sabine; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Hamer, Paul David; Johnsrud, Mona; Kylling, Arve; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Stebel, Kerstin; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Yttri, Karl Espen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In early October 2020, northern Europe experienced an episode with poor air quality due to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM). At several sites in Norway, recorded weekly values exceeded historical maximum PM10 ...
    • A surrogate-assisted measurement correction method for accurate and low-cost monitoring of particulate matter pollutants 

      Wojcikowski, Marek; Pankiewicz, Bogdan; Bekasiewicz, Adrian; Cao, Tuan-Vu; Lepioufle, Jean-Marie; Vallejo, Islen; Ødegård, Rune Åvar; Ha, Hoai Phuong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Air pollution involves multiple health and economic challenges. Its accurate and low-cost monitoring is important for developing services dedicated to reduce the exposure of living beings to the pollution. Particulate ...
    • Odds and ends of atmospheric mercury in Europe and over the North Atlantic Ocean: temporal trends of 25 years of measurements 

      Custódio, Danilo; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Spain, T. Gerard; Pankratov, Fidel F.; Strigunova, Iana; Molepo, Koketso; Skov, Henrik; Bieser, Johannes; Ebinghaus, Ralf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The global monitoring plan of the Minamata Convention on Mercury was established to generate long-term data necessary for evaluating the effectiveness of regulatory measures at a global scale. After 25 years of monitoring ...