Human Exposure to Freshwater Toxins: New Approaches and Potential Prevention Methods
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 256
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyanotoxins; bioaccumulation; biomarkers; dietary exposure; food safety; in vitro assays; in vivo assays; risk assessment; toxic effects; toxicological evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, a significant increase in both the quantity and diversity of toxins has been occurring in freshwater throughout the world due to different factors like climate-change, eutrophication, and pollution. In addition, the discovery of new emerging toxins is frequent.
Many of these toxins have been shown to produce toxicity in different experimental models; however, studies concerning humans are still scarce. Thus, the toxic effects of these toxins in humans is of great concern, highlighting the need to have more information and new data on human exposure. For this purpose, the use of new techniques that have emerged in recent years and experimental models such as human cell lines, stem cells, 3D models, etc., are of interest for progress in this field. In addition, the exposure to these toxins depends on many factors, so the employment of different techniques for the prevention of the exposure to these toxins or the protection against the toxic effects induced are essential.
This Special Issue aims to cover human toxicity research which reveals and updates data on real human exposure to these toxins together with new studies which focus on different pre- and post-exposure prevention methods.
Dr. Daniel Gutierrez-Praena
Dr. Ana Isabel Prieto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Freshwater toxins
- biotoxins
- human exposure
- drinking water
- dietary exposure
- risk assessment
- biomarkers
- prevention
