Toxicity of Nanoparticles
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Nanoscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 926
Special Issue Editor
2. World Institute for Family Health, University of Kalisz, Nowy Swiat 4, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland
Interests: nanotoxicology; impact of nanoparticles on cancer; pesticides toxicity; environmental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid expansion of nanotechnologies promises to have significant beneficial impacts on society, yet there is increasing concern that exposure to nanoparticles (NPs) will have a negative impact on both human and environmental health. Nanoparticles can easily enter the human body and cross all intrinsic barriers, making them very useful as drug delivery vectors; on the other hand, NPs may interact with biological systems and induce potentially negative effects. Presently, there is increasing concern about the detrimental health effects due to NP exposure. Nanoparticles have been reported to induce oxidative stress, DNA damage, inflammation, and many other adverse effects that are known to be crucial for the development of lifestyle diseases.
Studies have shown that the toxic effects of NPs are mainly determined by several factors, such as physicochemical properties, dose, exposure pathways, and duration. The unique physicochemical properties of NPs confer not only promising biological effects but also pose unexpected toxic threats to the human body at the same time. The chronic exposure to low doses of noxious chemicals mainly of anthropogenic origin is inevitable; therefore, it is important to expand our knowledge about the mechanisms underlying the adverse effects of nanoparticles. Based on our current knowledge, it is challenging to elucidate the exact mechanisms of NP toxicity.
This Special Issue focuses on the in vitro and in vivo interactions of nanomaterials with biological systems at different levels of organization. We welcome both experimental works and review papers regarding the negative effects of nanoparticles on the molecular and cellular levels, on tissues and organs, and on whole organisms. We also welcome studies on animal model systems and the environmental and occupational exposure of humans to nanoparticles.
It is my pleasure to invite manuscript submissions for this Special Issue.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Lucyna Kapka-Skrzypczak and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Magdalena Matysiak-Kucharek (Institute of Rural Health).
Prof. Dr. Lucyna Kapka-Skrzypczak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoparticles
- nanotoxicity
- exposure to nanoparticles
- health effects
- biological effects
- oxidative stress
- environmental health
