Advance in Biomarkers for the Identification of Human Exposure to Different Occupational and Environmental Pollutants of New Concern

Dear Colleagues,

Human biomonitoring is a powerful method for assessing human exposure to xenobiotics (or their associated effects) by measuring these chemicals themselves or their metabolites in human tissues or specimens, such as blood, urine or hair, but also the effects that indicate the presence of early symptoms or dysfunctions that are likely still reversible with reduced environmental exposure. New analytical tecniques have made very low levels of xenobiotics detectable, which is helpful in biological monitoring, where the analytes have frequently very low concentrations, in particular, in the general population. Studying the new xenobiotics, such as endochrine disruptors, - phthalates, alchil-phenols, perfluoro-octanoic acid (PFOA) pesticides,  is essential improve the definition of occupational exposure and our understanding of the general population reference values.

This Special Issue focuses on research on new biomarkers and the development of new analytical methods using different tecniques, such as liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, to measure the exposure, effect and susceptibility  biomarkers in human specimens, mostly in their blood, urine, saliva, and exaled air. Therefore, this Special Issue solicits the submission of original researches and review articles on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Enrico Paci
Dr. Paola Castellano
Guest Editors

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• biomarker
• biomonitoring
• reference values
• xenobiotics
• exposure
• endochrine disruptors