Progress on Relationship between Health Effects of Different Components of Inhalable Particulate Matter (PM₁₀) and their Toxic Mechanisms

Inhalable Particulate matter (PM₁₀) of the air pollution has become a global concern.It can enter the human body with the respiratory movement and cause harm to health by the small size and the light weight.It is proved that the toxicity of PM₁₀ is closely related to its components by a large number of domestic and foreign epidemiological and toxicological tests.The authors make a brief review on health effects and toxic mechanisms of different components of PM₁₀.