Toxic and Essential Metals in Human Health and Disease 2021

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Biomolecules called “Toxic and Essential Metals in Human Health and Disease 2021” represents a follow-up of our previous Special Issue with the name of “Toxic and Essential Metals in Human Health and Disease”. We would like to further explore the physicochemical and biological aspects of the elements, both in terms of the expanding appreciation of the essentiality of individual elements and the toxicity of excessive amounts of each element. Molecular biologists and enzyme chemists share with clinicians and toxicologists an appreciation of these substances. The nutritional and metabolic complexities of the trace and mineral elements are reflected by the diversity of conditions recognized as being affected by derangements or deficiencies of these substances, such as neurodegenerative diseases, dermatological conditions, carcinogenic processes, cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and endocrine dysfunctions. The ability of some trace elements to interfere with the biochemical and physiological utilization of molecular oxygen continues to sustain considerable research interest.

The journal Biomolecules welcomes researchers and clinicians around the world to submit for online presentation their results or reviews within this field of Toxic and Essential Metals in Human Health and Disease in this Special Issue.

A previous Special Issue on “Toxic and Essential Metals in Human Health and Disease” already appeared in 2020 (see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomolecules/special_issues/Toxic_essential_metals), and many interesting articles were submitted, accepted, and published. Our team did its best to simplify and speed up the processing of articles, and the comments of our invited reviewers helped to improve their quality. Many of them were accepted for publication no later than a month after their initial submission. We will aim to provide the same level of service this time.

Prof. Dr. Valeria M Nurchi
Prof. Dr. Jan Aaseth
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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