Human Biomonitoring, Genetic Susceptibility and Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Exposures
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Radioactive Substances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 765
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental pollutants; mercury; cadmium; toxicokinetic genes; toxicodynamic genes; genetic susceptibility; polymorphisms genetics; indigenous groups
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The issue of global pollutants has risen high on the agenda of public health in recent years. Metals are a persistent and pervasive global health threat. Human exposure to metal occurs from environmental and occupational sources. Usually, metals are rapidly absorbed, distributed to all tissues, and slowly or not eliminated; therefore, metal exposure has been associated with several adverse health outcomes. Recently, genetic variations have been studied extensively as potential biomarkers of disease susceptibility, risk of developing disorders, and higher body levels of metals in exposed populations. With regard to global environmental pollutants and environmental exposures, the use of genetic variations in genetic testing may help in human biomonitoring to identify individuals at risk of early disease and/or with higher levels of these agents in the body. We aim for this Special Issue to help to expand and strengthen the capacity to identify individuals at higher risk of developing serious outcomes in exposed populations, to advance the detection of human biomonitoring in metal poisoning, to study metal toxicology, and to identify gene–environment interactions to explain how genes may influence the toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of metals.
To assess the current state of knowledge on metal exposure and adverse health outcomes in humans, we welcome the submission of high-quality original research, reviews, new methodologies, or perspectives that critically advance our understanding of metal exposure in human health.
Dr. Jamila Perini
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- global pollutants
- environmental exposure
- metal exposure
- metal poisoning
- toxicokinetic
- toxicodynamic
- human biomonitoring
- risk assessment
- gene–environment interaction
- genetic susceptibility
