Environmental Pollution and Oxidative Stress
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 9715
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental pollution; oxidative stress; inflammatory response; immune response; regulatory T cells; epigenetic; degenerative diseases; autoimmune diseases; antioxidants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The effect of environmental pollution on the population is a severe public health problem, mainly in highly populated cities and highly industrialized places. Repeated exposure to environmental pollutants, such as ozone and suspended particles, is directly associated with non-infectious chronic degenerative diseases, as well as with their progression. There are multiple ways by which environmental pollution is associated with degenerative diseases. However, it is demonstrated that air pollution by ozone or suspended particles causes oxidative stress and a chronic inflammatory response that has lost its regulation. Considering the role of oxidative signals in cell evolution and their role in the homeostasis of physiological functions, we can understand why chronic alterations in redox signaling lead to impaired signaling in both cells and the organism. These cause a vicious circle between the state of oxidative stress and the loss of regulation of the inflammatory response in degenerative diseases since, once the degenerative process is triggered, it is not possible to reverse it. Therefore, ozone contaminations and suspended particles are associated with autoimmune, cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, degenerative and neurodegenerative diseases, etc.
Prof. Dr. Selva Rivas-Arancibia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental pollution
- oxidative stress
- inflammatory response
- immune response
- regulatory T cells
- epigenetic
- degenerative diseases
- autoimmune diseases
- antioxidants
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