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Exercise training promotes a beneficial endothelial cell (EC) phenotype and results in conduit vessel adaptation. The specific underlying mechanisms have been proposed (shear stress, circumferential stress, hypoxia, metabolic) but are yet to be fully elucidated. This thesis inve…

Air pollution has been associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) by many epidemiology studies. However, the components of air pollution that are responsible for the CVD are unknown and the mechanisms underlying the associations need to be elucidated. The objectives of this s…