Environmental Toxicants in Human Health: Oxidative Stress, Metabolism and Toxicity
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Toxicology and Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the microbiome-gut–brain axis; neuroimmunology; immunotoxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The focus of the Special Issue is on direct toxicant effects on immune cells leading to pathology due to loss of immunohomeostasis from disbalance of immune effector and regulatory immune cells, in addition to the indirect effects of toxicants causing dysbiosis and/or cell damage on non-immune cells causing loss of immunohomeostasis. Loss of immune homeostasis may lead to excessive inflammation and oxidative stress as well as autoantibodies and autoreactive cytolytic T cells, but less responsiveness to cancers and senescent cells.
The Special Issue will also cover developmental and aging aspects of toxicants on immunity including involvement of ion fluxes, protein translation and aggravation, and intracellular and extracellular modulations. Multi-omic technologies useful for systemic modulations will be included such as single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics.
Dr. David A. Lawrence
Dr. Michael Lynes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental toxicants
- immune cells
- inflammation
- oxidative stress
- developmental and aging
- autoimmunity
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