Inhalation exposure to ozone (O3) causes adverse respiratory health effects that result from airway inflammation, a complex response mediated by changes to airway cellular transcriptional programs. These programs may be regulated in part by a subset of microRNAs transferred between cells (e.g. epithelial cells and macrophages) via extracellular vesicles (EV miRNA). To explore this, we exposed female C57BL/6J mice to filtered air (FA), 1, or 2 ppm O3 by inhalation and collected bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) 21 hours later for markers of airway inflammation, EVs, and EV miRNA. Both concentrations of O3 significantly increased markers of inflammation (neutrophils and total protein) and the number of EVs in the BALF.Using high-throughput small RNA sequencing, we identified several differentially expressed (DE) BALF EV miRNAs after 1 ppm (16 DE miRNAs) and 2 ppm (99 DE miRNAs) O3 versus FA exposure. O3 concentration response patterns in EV miRNA expression were apparent, particularly for the two most highly expressed (miR-2137 and miR-126-3p) and lowly expressed (miR-378-3p and miR-351-5p) miRNAs. Integrative analysis of EV miRNA expression and airway cellular mRNA expression identified EV miR-22-3p as a candidate regulator of transcriptomic responses to O3 in airway macrophages. In contrast, we did not identify candidate miRNA regulators of mRNA expression data from conducting airways (predominantly composed of epithelial cells). In summary, our data show that O3 exposure alters EV release and EV miRNA expression, suggesting that further investigation of EVs may provide insight into their effects on airway macrophage function and other mechanisms of O3-induced respiratory inflammation. enhanced antigen presentation activity (32). Epithelial cell barrier dysfunction and damage are evidenced by the presence of an intra-alveolar, albumin-rich exudate following O3 exposure (21). Shared functional responses, albeit differing with respect to timing and precise mediators, include the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. IL-6 (11), IL-1 family (37), TNFα (13)) and altered production/activity of other proteins (e.g. surfactant (20), metallothionein (24), matrix metalloproteinases (55)), and small molecules (e.g. antioxidants (5), eicosanoids (11), specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (29)).Underlying the functional cellular responses of airway macrophage and epithelial cells to O3 are alterations in inflammatory, immune, and oxidative stress response gene expression programs. Transcriptomic and proteomic studies have better illuminated the landscape of gene expression responses to O3, revealing the involvement of the protease/anti protease system (28), heat shock proteins (39), and NRF2 (8) and NF-kB family transcription factors (26). Novel O3responsive genes have also been discovered recently, including oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) in conducting airways and hairy enhancer of split 1 (Hes1) in airway macrophages (51). Although the gene expression landscape of the airway response to O3 is becoming clearer, the pr...