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Toxics, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2017 - 9 articles

Cover Story: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of major concern because of their mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. Carcinogenic potency of ambient air is usually assessed using particle-bound 16 U.S. EPA priority PAHs. A study published in this volume shows that the traditional approach likely underestimates aerosol PAH toxicity. A review of 13 projects, in which 88 gas and particle phase PAHs were measured in different ambient and source aerosols, shows that the 16 particle-bound EPA PAHs could be responsible for only 14% of PAH toxicity. The study stresses the need for a thorough toxicity review of PAHs outside the EPA priority list. View this paper
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Articles (9)

  • Review
  • Open Access
128 Citations
10,137 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2017

Bisphenol A (BPA), 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl) propane, is one of the most utilized industrial chemicals worldwide, with the ability to interfere with/or mimic estrogenic hormones with associated biological responses. Environmental human exposure to thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,924 Views
13 Pages

A Retrospective Analysis of Agricultural Herbicides in Surface Water Reveals Risk Plausibility for Declines in Submerged Aquatic Vegetation

  • Kelly W. Powell,
  • W. Gregory Cope,
  • Catherine E. LePrevost,
  • Tom Augspurger,
  • Annette M. McCarthy and
  • Damian Shea

6 September 2017

The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System (APES) is the second largest estuarine system within the mainland of the United States and is estimated to have lost about half of its submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) over the past several decades. The issue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,312 Views
9 Pages

28 August 2017

Understanding the relationship between metal level in predators and their prey is an important issue, and is usually difficult to determine because animals eat a variety of organisms. However, shorebirds that stop over during spring migration along D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
9,312 Views
10 Pages

22 August 2017

Occupational exposure to pesticides in agricultural applications may cause acute and long-term health effects to farmers, and thus research on factors that reduce exposure is useful. However, studies on the relevance and effectiveness of training are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,568 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2017

A batch experiment was conducted to examine the effects of six low-molecular-weight organic acids on the mobilization of arsenic and trace metals from a range of contaminated soils. The results showed that the organic acids behaved differently when r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
153 Citations
18,727 Views
16 Pages

Do 16 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Represent PAH Air Toxicity?

  • Vera Samburova,
  • Barbara Zielinska and
  • Andrey Khlystov

15 August 2017

Estimation of carcinogenic potency based on analysis of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) ranked by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the most popular approach within scientific and environmental air quality management communitie...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,607 Views
10 Pages

6 August 2017

The National Toxic Substance Incidents Program (NTSIP) is a surveillance system designed to capture acute toxic substance releases, factors contributing to the release, and any associated injuries. North Carolina has participated since 2010, when NTS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,375 Views
12 Pages

Revelation of Different Nanoparticle-Uptake Behavior in Two Standard Cell Lines NIH/3T3 and A549 by Flow Cytometry and Time-Lapse Imaging

  • André Jochums,
  • Elsa Friehs,
  • Franziska Sambale,
  • Antonina Lavrentieva,
  • Detlef Bahnemann and
  • Thomas Scheper

19 July 2017

The uptake of nanomaterials into different cell types is a central pharmacological issue for the determination of nanotoxicity as well as for the development of drug delivery strategies. Most responses of the cells depend on their intracellular inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,825 Views
18 Pages

1 July 2017

Nanoparticles (NPs) can be released in the air in work settings, but various factors influence the exposure of workers. Controlled inhalation experiments can thus be conducted in an attempt to reproduce real-life exposure conditions and assess inhala...

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Toxics - ISSN 2305-6304