Molecular Research on Reproductive Toxicology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2025) | Viewed by 5206
Special Issue Editor
Interests: emerging contaminants; environmental toxicity; benzodiazepines; gametogenesis; embryo development; teratogenicity; oxidative stress; gene expression; behavioral alterations; histological alterations
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Dear Colleagues,
The contamination of surface water with pharmaceutical residues poses a growing environmental and ecological challenge. For decades, pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites have been released into sewage systems, often with little regard for their effects on wild flora and fauna at both organismal and molecular levels.
This Special Issue will gather the latest research on disruptions caused by widely used pharmacological compounds, particularly disruptions affecting the reproductive processes of aquatic organisms. Psychotropic drugs, whose usage has surged in response to the global increase in stress-related conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic, are of special interest.
Submissions should focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying alterations in reproductive behavior, gametogenesis, fertilization, and embryonic development. We welcome studies that explore changes at the level of gene expression, signaling pathways, epigenetic modifications, and cellular receptor interactions induced by pharmaceutical contaminants.
Research on invertebrate and lower vertebrate species, often under-represented in toxicological studies, is especially encouraged. Additionally, for comparative purposes, we invite comprehensive reviews on mammalian reproduction (including human studies) that focus on biomolecular effects.
This Special Issue is supervised by Dr. Chiara Maria Motta and assisted by Dr. Chiara Fogliano (University Federico II).
Dr. Chiara Maria Motta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental contamination
- aquatic organisms
- psychotropic drugs
- gametogenesis
- development
- teratogenesis
- gene expression
- behavioral effects
- oxidative stress
- epigenotoxic effects
- detoxification
- bioaccumulation
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