External Risk Factors in Prenatal Development: Cellular and Histological Perspectives
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Reproductive and Developmental Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editor
Interests: histology; ultrastructure of tissues and organs; electron microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
Embryonic development is a tightly regulated process in which environmental and maternal influences can profoundly affect cellular behavior, histogenesis, and organogenesis. Understanding how chemical or physical exposures, infections, metabolic disturbances, and other stressors disrupt developmental pathways is essential for advancing developmental biology, pathology, and toxicology. Recent progress in molecular profiling, imaging techniques, and histopathological evaluation now provides deeper insight into the mechanisms that underlie developmental vulnerability.
This Special Issue invites original research and review articles examining how external risk factors shape embryonic development, with particular emphasis on molecular mechanisms, cellular responses, and histological outcomes. We welcome studies addressing teratogenic pathways, placental interactions, tissue-level alterations, and innovative experimental models for evaluating developmental toxicity.
The topic aligns closely with the journal’s focus on developmental processes, disease mechanisms, and structural–functional relationships in biology and medicine. By integrating cellular, molecular, and histological perspectives, this Special Issue aims to advance understanding of how environmental factors influence normal development. By highlighting mechanistic insights across biological scales from gene regulation to tissue morphology, it also seeks to deepen our understanding of developmental vulnerability and resilience.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Viera Almášiová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- embryonal development
- environmental risk factors
- morphogenesis impairment
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