About this Research Topic
The need to address the impact of environmental pollution on human health has never been clearer as highlighted by a growing number of air-pollution-related illnesses and deaths. To identify the most appropriate approaches to preventing and/or modulating the effects of pollution toxicity on humans, it’s important to improve the understanding of the specific biological and biochemical mechanisms by which harmful atmospheric pollutants affect disease risk. In a future scenario of increasing health and environmental concerns, one of the most fascinating and currently interesting challenges faced by scientists is to unravel the complex interaction between pollutants acting simultaneously with heterogeneous mechanisms of action and the complicated nature of human tissues that can respond differently to the same dangerous agent.
The current Research Topic encourages the submission of different kind of manuscripts - Original Research papers, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Commentaries, Hypothesis and Theory papers, Opinion manuscripts that will include recent and state-of-art progress and achievements on the links between health conditions and pollution toxicity at a molecular and cellular level.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Understanding impacts of pollution toxicity on specific organ conditions i.e. skin, lungs, heart, etc
• Improving understanding of the connections between pollution and impaired neurodevelopment and cognitive ability
• Biomarkers
• Biomonitoring and adverse/toxic health effects
• Air, soil, water and biota chemical pollutants and health
• Microplastics
• Chemical stressors
• Ecotoxicology
• Environmental epidemiology
• Environmental toxicology
• Environmental Epigenetics
• Environment-related "omics"
• Indoor and outdoor air pollution
• Risks and public health
• Metals and health
• Mechanisms of toxicity
• Pollution and oxidative damage
• Pollution and inflammation
• Exposome and premature aging
Keywords: Pollutants, antioxidant response, oxinflammation, inflammaging, neuroinflammation
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