Mehrdad Arjomandi, MD

Professor
Medicine
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 24393

Dr. Arjomandi grew up in Ahvaz, a small city in Southwestern Iran, and moved to the United States in 1986 in the aftermath of Iranian revolution (1979), Iraq's invasion of Iran (1980-88), and his family displacement inside Iran (1980-83). When in California, he began his higher education at Los Angeles Pierce College before transferring to University of California San Diego in 1988, where he obtained a bachelor degree in molecular biology and completed a senior honors thesis in developmental biology in Dr. Richard Firtel’s lab. He then attended Stanford University School of Medicine in 1991, completing two predoctoral research fellowships in Dr. Etienne Emile Beaulieu’s lab at INSERM in Paris, France, and Dr. John Cooke’s vascular biology lab at Stanford. Dr. Arjomandi then completed a residency in internal medicine at UCLA (1996-99) and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at UCSF (2000-03). He completed three additional years of research fellowship funded by the American Lung Association and Chest Foundation before successfully competing for an NIH K23 award in 2006 and then joining the pulmonary and critical care faculty at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). In 2008, he obtained a joint appointment at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SF VA).

Currently, Dr. Arjomandi is Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF with a joint appointment at SF VA. He is Director of the UCSF Human Exposure Laboratory at SFGH, Director of Environmental Medicine Clinic at SF VA, Site Director for the SF VA Airborne Hazard Exposure Study Center of Excellence, an investigator at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, and a member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Research Interests

The lung is constantly exposed to various environmental pollutants, allergens, and toxins, which interact with airways and alveoli and result in inflammation, injury, and disease. My laboratory primary research interest has been centered on the paradigm that respiratory exposures to pollutants and toxicants contribute to development and progression of chronic lung diseases, and may further yield systemic effects well beyond lungs. Under this paradigm, my research activities have focused on understanding the physiologic and immunologic mechanisms via which environmental exposures contribute to chronic lung diseases and how knowledge of these mechanisms could be translated to ways to better define, prognosticate, and manage disease burden at both individual and societal levels.

I have dedicated my efforts to (1) investigate the biology of airway immune cells using inhalational exposure to ozone in humans as a model of lung injury simulating exacerbation in chronic lung disease, and (2) characterize the early cardiopulmonary changes due to exposure to tobacco smoke and the pathophysiology and biology associated with those changes.

Publications: 

Response.

Chest

Seedahmed MI, Albirair MT, Whooley MA, Koth LL, Blanc PD, Arjomandi M

Longitudinal Follow-Up of Participants With Tobacco Exposure and Preserved Spirometry.

JAMA

McKleroy W, Shing T, Anderson WH, Arjomandi M, Awan HA, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bleecker ER, Boscardin J, Bowler RP, Buhr RG, Criner GJ, Comellas AP, Curtis JL, Dransfield M, Doerschuk CM, Dolezal BA, Drummond MB, Han MK, Hansel NN, Helton K, Hoffman EA, Kaner RJ, Kanner RE, Krishnan JA, Lazarus SC, Martinez FJ, Ohar J, Ortega VE, Paine R, Peters SP, Reinhardt JM, Rennard S, Smith BM, Tashkin DP, Couper D, Cooper CB, Woodruff PG

Changes in Lung Volumes with Spirometric Disease Progression in COPD.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.)

Arjomandi M, Zeng S, Chen J, Bhatt SP, Abtin F, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bleecker ER, Buhr RG, Criner GJ, Comellas AP, Couper DJ, Curtis JL, Dransfield MT, Fortis S, Han MK, Hansel NN, Hoffman EA, Hokanson JE, Kaner RJ, Kanner RE, Krishnan JA, Labaki W, Lynch DA, Ortega VE, Peters SP, Woodruff PG, Cooper CB, Bowler RP, Paine R, Rennard SI, Tashkin DP, and the COPDGene and SPIROMICS Investigators

Screening for Exposure to Beryllium Among US Veterans With a Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis, 2002-2020.

Chest

Seedahmed MI, Albirair MT, Whooley MA, Koth LL, Blanc PD, Arjomandi M

Epidemiology of Sarcoidosis in U.S. Veterans from 2003 to 2019.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Seedahmed MI, Baugh AD, Albirair MT, Luo Y, Chen J, McCulloch CE, Whooley MA, Koth LL, Arjomandi M

A MUC5B Gene Polymorphism, rs35705950-T Confers Protective Effects Against COVID-19 Hospitalization but not Severe Disease or Mortality.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Verma A, Minnier J, Wan ES, Huffman JE, Gao L, Joseph J, Ho YL, Wu WC, Cho K, Gorman BR, Rajeevan N, Pyarajan S, Garcon H, Meigs JB, Sun YV, Reaven PD, McGeary JE, Suzuki A, Gelernter J, Lynch JA, Peterson JM, Zekavat SM, Natarajan P, Dalal S, Jhala DN, Arjomandi M, Gatsby E, Lynch KE, Bonomo RA, Freiberg M, Pathak GA, Zhou JJ, Donskey CJ, Madduri RK, Wells QS, Huang RD, Polimanti R, Chang KM, Liao KP, Tsao PS, Wilson PWF, Hung A, O'Donnell CJ, Gaziano JM, Hauger RL, Iyengar SK, Luoh SW, Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative

Bronchodilator Responsiveness in Tobacco-Exposed People With or Without COPD.

Chest

Fortis S, Quibrera PM, Comellas AP, Bhat SP, Tashkin DP, Hoffman EA, Criner GJ, Han MK, Barr RG, Arjomandi M, Dransfield MB, Peters SP, Dolezal BA, Kim V, Putcha N, Rennard SI, Paine R, Kanner RE, Curtis JL, Bowler RP, Martinez FJ, Hansel NN, Krishnan JA, Woodruff PG, Barjaktarevic IZ, Couper D, Anderson WH, Cooper CB, Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study Investigators

Consensus statements on deployment-related respiratory disease, inclusive of constrictive bronchiolitis: A modified Delphi study.

Chest

Falvo MJ, Sotolongo AM, Osterholzer JJ, Robertson MW, Kazerooni EA, Amorosa JK, Garshick E, Jones KD, Galvin JR, Kreiss K, Hines SE, Franks TJ, Miller RF, Rose CS, Arjomandi M, Krefft SD, Morris MJ, Polosukhin VV, Blanc PD, D'Armiento JM

Bronchodilators in Tobacco-Exposed Persons with Symptoms and Preserved Lung Function.

The New England journal of medicine

Han MK, Ye W, Wang D, White E, Arjomandi M, Barjaktarevic IZ, Brown SA, Buhr RG, Comellas AP, Cooper CB, Criner GJ, Dransfield MT, Drescher F, Folz RJ, Hansel NN, Kaner RJ, Kanner RE, Krishnan JA, Lazarus SC, Maddipati V, Martinez FJ, Mathews A, Meldrum C, McEvoy C, Nyunoya T, Rogers L, Stringer WW, Wendt CH, Wise RA, Wisniewski SR, Sciurba FC, Woodruff PG, RETHINC Study Group

Reversible Airflow Obstruction Predicts Future COPD Development in the SPIROMICS Cohort.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Buhr RG, Barjaktarevic IZ, Quibrera PM, Bateman LA, Bleecker ER, Couper DJ, Curtis JL, Dolezal BA, Han MK, Hansel NN, Krishnan JA, Martinez FJ, McKleroy W, Paine Iii R, Rennard SI, Tashkin DP, Woodruff PG, Kanner RE, Cooper CB, SPIROMICS investigators

Lung Microbiota and Metabolites Collectively Associate with Clinical Outcomes in Milder Stage COPD.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Madapoosi SS, Cruickshank-Quinn C, Opron K, Erb-Downward JR, Begley LA, Li G, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Comellas AP, Couper D, Cooper CB, Freeman C, Han M, Kaner RJ, Labaki W, Martinez FJ, Ortega VE, Peters SP, Paine R, Woodruff P, Curtis JL, Huffnagle GB, Stringer KA, Bowler RP, Esther CR, Reisdorph N, Huang YJ, SPIROMICS Research Group

Postdeployment Respiratory Health: The Roles of the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry and the Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Davis CW, Rabin AS, Jani N, Osterholzer JJ, Krefft S, Hines SE, Arjomandi M, Robertson MW, Sotolongo AM, Falvo MJ, Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network

NF-?B inhibitor alpha has a cross-variant role during SARS-CoV-2 infection in ACE2-overexpressing human airway organoids.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Simoneau CR, Chen PY, Xing GK, Khalid MM, Meyers NL, Hayashi JM, Taha TY, Leon KE, Ashuach T, Fontaine KA, Rodriguez L, Joehnk B, Walcott K, Vasudevan S, Fang X, Maishan M, Schultz S, Roose J, Matthay MA, Sil A, Arjomandi M, Yosef N, Ott M

Association of Kidney Comorbidities and Acute Kidney Failure With Unfavorable Outcomes After COVID-19 in Individuals With the Sickle Cell Trait.

JAMA internal medicine

Verma A, Huffman JE, Gao L, Minnier J, Wu WC, Cho K, Ho YL, Gorman BR, Pyarajan S, Rajeevan N, Garcon H, Joseph J, McGeary JE, Suzuki A, Reaven PD, Wan ES, Lynch JA, Petersen JM, Meigs JB, Freiberg MS, Gatsby E, Lynch KE, Zekavat SM, Natarajan P, Dalal S, Jhala DN, Arjomandi M, Bonomo RA, Thompson TK, Pathak GA, Zhou JJ, Donskey CJ, Madduri RK, Wells QS, Gelernter J, Huang RDL, Polimanti R, Chang KM, Liao KP, Tsao PS, Sun YV, Wilson PWF, O'Donnell CJ, Hung AM, Gaziano JM, Hauger RL, Iyengar SK, Luoh SW, VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative

Elastin Degradation and Lung Function Deterioration with Remote Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Never-smokers.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.)

Mustra Rakic J, Zeng S, Rohdin-Bibby L, Van Blarigan EL, Liu X, Ma S, Kane JP, Redberg RF, Turino GM, Oestreicher Stock E, Arjomandi M

Effect of ozone on allergic airway inflammation.

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global

Arjomandi M, Wong H, Tenney R, Holland N, Balmes JR

Forced Expiratory Flow at 25%-75% Links COPD Physiology to Emphysema and Disease Severity in the SPIROMICS Cohort.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.)

Ronish BE, Couper DJ, Barjaktarevic IZ, Cooper CB, Kanner RE, Pirozzi CS, Kim V, Wells JM, Han MK, Woodruff PG, Ortega VE, Peters SP, Hoffman EA, Buhr RG, Dolezal BA, Tashkin DP, Liou TG, Bateman LA, Schroeder JD, Martinez FJ, Barr RG, Hansel NN, Comellas AP, Rennard SI, Arjomandi M, Paine Iii R

Genetic Loci Associated With COVID-19 Positivity and Hospitalization in White, Black, and Hispanic Veterans of the VA Million Veteran Program.

Frontiers in genetics

Peloso GM, Tcheandjieu C, McGeary JE, Posner DC, Ho YL, Zhou JJ, Hilliard AT, Joseph J, O'Donnell CJ, Efird JT, Crawford DC, Wu WC, Arjomandi M, VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative, Sun YV, Assimes TL, Huffman JE

Effects of short-term increases in personal and ambient pollutant concentrations on pulmonary and cardiovascular function: A panel study analysis of the Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr subjects (MOSES 2).

Environmental research

Frampton MW, Balmes JR, Bromberg PA, Arjomandi M, Hazucha MJ, Thurston SW, Alexis NE, Ganz P, Zareba W, Koutrakis P, Thevenet-Morrison K, Rich DQ

Significance of FEV3/FEV6 in recognition of early airway disease in smokers at risk of development of COPD: Analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort.

Chest

Yee N, Markovic D, Buhr RG, Fortis S, Arjomandi M, Couper D, Anderson WH, Paine R, Woodruff PG, Han MK, Martinez FJ, Barr RG, Wells JM, Ortega VE, Hoffman EA, Kim V, Drummond MB, Bowler RP, Curtis JL, Cooper CB, Tashkin DP, Barjaktarevic IZ

Actigraphy informs distinct patient-centered outcomes in Pre-COPD.

Respiratory medicine

Chen J, Weldemichael L, Zeng S, Giang B, Geerts J, Ching WC, Nishihama M, Gold WM, Arjomandi M

Ratio of Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second /Slow Vital Capacity (FEV1/SVC)<0.7 is associated with clinical, functional, and radiologic features of obstructive lung disease in smokers with preserved lung function.

Chest

Fortis S, Comellas A, Bhatt SP, Hoffman EA, Han MK, Bhakta NR, Paine R, Ronish B, Kanner RE, Dransfield M, Hoesterey D, Buhr RG, Barr RG, Dolezal B, Ortega VE, Drummond MB, Arjomandi M, Kaner RJ, Kim V, Curtis JL, Bowler RP, Martinez F, Labaki WW, Cooper CB, O'Neal WK, Criner G, Hansel NN, Krishnan JA, Woodruff P, Couper D, Tashkin D, Barjaktarevic I

Lower PDL1/2 and AXL Expression on Lung Myeloid Cells Suggests Inflammatory Bias in Smoking and COPD.

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Vasudevan S, Vásquez JJ, Chen W, Aguilar-Rodriguez B, Niemi EC, Zeng S, Tamaki W, Nakamura MC, Arjomandi M

Does Ambient Ozone or Other Pollutants Modify Effects of Controlled Ozone Exposure on Pulmonary Function?

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Rich DQ, Thurston SW, Balmes JR, Bromberg PA, Arjomandi M, Hazucha MJ, Alexis NE, Ganz P, Zareba W, Thevenet-Morrison K, Koutrakis P, Frampton MW

Military Burn Pits.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Sotolongo A, Falvo M, Santos S, Johnson I, Arjomandi M, Hines S, Krefft S, Osterholzer J

Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr Subjects (MOSES): Part 2. Effects of Personal and Ambient Concentrations of Ozone and Other Pollutants on Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Function.

Research report (Health Effects Institute)

Rich DQ, Frampton MW, Balmes JR, Bromberg PA, Arjomandi M, Hazucha MJ, Thurston SW, Alexis NE, Ganz P, Zareba W, Koutrakis P, Thevenet-Morrison K

Laboratory-based Intermountain Validated Exacerbation (LIVE) Score stability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BMJ open respiratory research

Blagev DP, Collingridge DS, Rea S, Carey KA, Mularski RA, Zeng S, Arjomandi M, Press VG

Clinical Significance of Bronchodilator Responsiveness Evaluated by Forced Vital Capacity in COPD: SPIROMICS Cohort Analysis.

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Barjaktarevic IZ, Buhr RG, Wang X, Hu S, Couper D, Anderson W, Kanner RE, Paine Iii R, Bhatt SP, Bhakta NR, Arjomandi M, Kaner RJ, Pirozzi CS, Curtis JL, O'Neal WK, Woodruff PG, Han MK, Martinez FJ, Hansel N, Wells JM, Ortega VE, Hoffman EA, Doerschuk CM, Kim V, Dransfield MT, Drummond MB, Bowler R, Criner G, Christenson SA, Ronish B, Peters SP, Krishnan JA, Tashkin DP, Cooper CB

Radiographic Lung Volumes Predict Progression to COPD in Smokers with Preserved Spirometry in SPIROMICS.

The European respiratory journal

Arjomandi M, Zeng S, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bleecker ER, Bowler RP, Buhr RG, Criner GJ, Comellas AP, Cooper CB, Couper DJ, Curtis JL, Dransfield MT, Han MK, Hansel NN, Hoffman EA, Kaner RJ, Kanner RE, Krishnan JA, Paine R, Peters SP, Rennard SI, Woodruff PG

Ozone effects on blood biomarkers of systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial function, and thrombosis: The Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr Subjects (MOSES).

PloS one

Balmes JR, Arjomandi M, Bromberg PA, Costantini MG, Dagincourt N, Hazucha MJ, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Rich DQ, Stark P, Frampton MW

Analytical validation of a novel multi-analyte plasma test for lung nodule characterization.

Biomedical research and reviews

Trivedi NN, Brown JK, Rubenstein T, Rostykus AD, Fish AL, Yu H, Carbonell L, Juang A, Kamer S, Patel B, Sidhu M, Vuong D, Wang S, Beggs M, Wu AH, Arjomandi M

Risk assessment for indeterminate pulmonary nodules using a novel, plasma-protein based biomarker assay.

Biomedical research and clinical practice

Trivedi NN, Arjomandi M, Brown JK, Rubenstein T, Rostykus AD, Esposito S, Axler E, Beggs M, Yu H, Carbonell L, Juang A, Kamer S, Patel B, Wang S, Fish AL, Haddad Z, Wu AH

MA23.03 Risk Assessment for Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules Using a Novel, Plasma-Protein Based Biomarker Assay.

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

A. Fish, A. Vachani, M. Beggs, L. Carbonell, Z. Haddad, A. Juang, S. Kamer, B. Patel, H. Yu, A. Wu, P. Massion, M. Arjomandi, J. Brown, N. Trivedi, T. Rubenstein

Lung volume indices predict morbidity in smokers with preserved spirometry.

Thorax

Zeng S, Tham A, Bos B, Jin J, Giang B, Arjomandi M

Cardiovascular function and ozone exposure: The Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr Subjects (MOSES).

Environment international

Rich DQ, Balmes JR, Frampton MW, Zareba W, Stark P, Arjomandi M, Hazucha MJ, Costantini MG, Ganz P, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Dagincourt N, Bromberg PA

Marijuana Use, Respiratory Symptoms, and Pulmonary Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Annals of internal medicine

Ghasemiesfe M, Ravi D, Vali M, Korenstein D, Arjomandi M, Frank J, Austin PC, Keyhani S

Stability of Frequency of Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations and Health Care Utilization in Clinical Populations.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.)

Blagev DP, Collingridge DS, Rea S, Press VG, Churpek MM, Carey K, Mularski RA, Zeng S, Arjomandi M

The Laboratory-Based Intermountain Validated Exacerbation (LIVE) Score Identifies Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients at High Mortality Risk.

Frontiers in medicine

Blagev DP, Collingridge DS, Rea S, Horne BD, Press VG, Churpek MM, Carey KA, Mularski RA, Zeng S, Arjomandi M

Respiratory Responses to Ozone Exposure: The Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr Subjects (MOSES).

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Arjomandi M, Balmes JR, Frampton MW, Bromberg P, Rich DQ, Stark P, Alexis NE, Costantini M, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Dagincourt N, Hazucha MJ

Lung volumes identify an at-risk group in persons with prolonged secondhand tobacco smoke exposure but without overt airflow obstruction.

BMJ open respiratory research

Arjomandi M, Zeng S, Geerts J, Stiner RK, Bos B, van Koeverden I, Keene J, Elicker B, Blanc PD, Gold WM

Multicenter Ozone Study in oldEr Subjects (MOSES): Part 1. Effects of Exposure to Low Concentrations of Ozone on Respiratory and Cardiovascular Outcomes.

Research report (Health Effects Institute)

Frampton MW, Balmes JR, Bromberg PA, Stark P, Arjomandi M, Hazucha MJ, Rich DQ, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Dagincourt N, Alexis N, Ganz P, Zareba W, Costantini MG

Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome- an Underdiagnosed Phenotype in Heavy Smokers.

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Miren Guenechea-Sola, Sarah Dalton, Jeroen Geerts, Siyang Zeng, Mehrdad Arjomandi

Inflammatory and repair pathways induced in human bronchoalveolar lavage cells with ozone inhalation.

PloS one

Leroy P, Tham A, Wong H, Tenney R, Chen C, Stiner R, Balmes JR, Paquet AC, Arjomandi M

Exposure to medium and high ambient levels of ozone causes adverse systemic inflammatory and cardiac autonomic effects.

American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology

Arjomandi M, Wong H, Donde A, Frelinger J, Dalton S, Ching W, Power K, Balmes JR

Ozone inhalation leads to a dose-dependent increase of cytogenetic damage in human lymphocytes.

Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

Holland N, Davé V, Venkat S, Wong H, Donde A, Balmes JR, Arjomandi M

IQGAP1-dependent scaffold suppresses RhoA and inhibits airway smooth muscle contraction.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Bhattacharya M, Sundaram A, Kudo M, Farmer J, Ganesan P, Khalifeh-Soltani A, Arjomandi M, Atabai K, Huang X, Sheppard D

Hidden Costs of Climate Change: Contribution of Ozone to Human Diseases

Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Proceedings of the U.S.-Iran Symposium on Air Pollution in Megacities.

Mfge8 suppresses airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma by regulating smooth muscle contraction.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Kudo M, Khalifeh Soltani SM, Sakuma SA, McKleroy W, Lee TH, Woodruff PG, Lee JW, Huang K, Chen C, Arjomandi M, Huang X, Atabai K

Oxidative Injury Due to Inhalation of Ozone Causes Dose-Dependent Cytogenetic Damage in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Mehrdad Arjomandi, Subha Venkat, Hofer Wong, Aneesh Donde, John Balmes, Nina Holland

Effects of exercise on systemic inflammatory, coagulatory, and cardiac autonomic parameters in an inhalational exposure study.

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Donde A, Wong H, Frelinger J, Power K, Balmes JR, Arjomandi M

Polymorphism in Osteopontin Gene (SPP1) Is Associated with Asthma and Related Phenotypes in a Puerto Rican Population.

Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology

Arjomandi M, Galanter JM, Choudhry S, Eng C, Hu D, Beckman K, Chapela R, Rodríguez-Santana JR, Rodríguez-Cintrón W, Ford J, Avila PC, Burchard EG

Secreted osteopontin is highly polymerized in human airways and fragmented in asthmatic airway secretions.

PloS one

Arjomandi M, Frelinger J, Donde A, Wong H, Yellamilli A, Raymond W

PAI-1 is an essential component of the pulmonary host response during Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in mice.

Thorax

Goolaerts A, Lafargue M, Song Y, Miyazawa B, Arjomandi M, Carlès M, Roux J, Howard M, Parks DA, Iles KE, Pittet JF

Low prevalence of chronic beryllium disease among workers at a nuclear weapons research and development facility.

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Arjomandi M, Seward J, Gotway MB, Nishimura S, Fulton GP, Thundiyil J, King TE, Harber P, Balmes JR

Pulmonary function abnormalities in never-smoking flight attendants exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke in the aircraft cabin.

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Arjomandi M, Haight T, Redberg R, Gold WM

Is there an association between lifetime cumulative exposure and acute pulmonary responses to ozone?

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Arjomandi M, Tager IB, Bastaki M, Chen C, Holland N, Balmes JR

Effects of chronic and acute ozone exposure on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant capacity in healthy young adults.

Environmental health perspectives

Chen C, Arjomandi M, Balmes J, Tager I, Holland N

Effects of antioxidant enzyme polymorphisms on ozone-induced lung function changes.

The European respiratory journal

Chen C, Arjomandi M, Tager IB, Holland N, Balmes JR

Effects of nitrogen dioxide on allergic airway responses in subjects with asthma.

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Witten A, Solomon C, Abbritti E, Arjomandi M, Zhai W, Kleinman M, Balmes J

Sputum induction and bronchoscopy for assessment of ozone-induced airway inflammation in asthma.

Chest

Arjomandi M, Schmidlin I, Girling P, Boylen K, Ferrando R, Balmes J

Repeated exposure to ozone increases alveolar macrophage recruitment into asthmatic airways.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Arjomandi M, Witten A, Abbritti E, Reintjes K, Schmidlin I, Zhai W, Solomon C, Balmes J

Arginine restores nitric oxide activity and inhibits monocyte accumulation after vascular injury in hypercholesterolemic rabbits.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Wang BY, Candipan RC, Arjomandi M, Hsiun PT, Tsao PS, Cooke JP

Effects of immunosuppressants FK506 and rapamycin on the heterooligomeric form of the progesterone receptor.

The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology

Renoir JM, Le Bihan S, Mercier-Bodard C, Gold A, Arjomandi M, Radanyi C, Baulieu EE