The Health Influences of Organochlorine Pesticides
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 5005
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipid rafts; caveolae; immunoproteasomes; cytokines; chemokines; DNA methylation; histone modifications; microRNAs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on the health influences of organochlorine pesticides in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are well-known for their ubiquitous existence in natural ecosystems. For decades, OCPs have been banned from the consumer market, alongside restricted-use registration for agricultural, domestic, and industrial applications. The astringency of OCP exposure has become a prevalent health concern because of their highly lipophilic nature and persistence in the environment. OCPs have been detected in meat products, milk, vegetables, soil, and water. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has classified several OCPs as probable human carcinogens. Earlier studies have demonstrated that OCP exposure regulates pathophysiological mechanisms associated with carcinogenesis, hormonal disruption, neurological dysfunction, reproductive abnormalities, and tumorigenesis. However, there is scant information about the incipient molecular mechanisms and the associated biomarkers that are linked to OCP-induced pathologies. The current Special Issue invites articles that narrow the gap in our understanding about the risks and health-related issues associated with OCP exposure.
Prof. Dr. Sanjay Batra
Prof. Dr. Waneene Dorsey
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biomarkers
- Environment
- Exposure
- Inflammation
- Human health
- Signaling
- Toxicity
- Organochlorine
- Pesticides
- Pathologies
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