Toxic Neuropathy: Mechanisms, Causes, Risk Exposure, Diagnosis, Prevention and Therapeutic Options
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurotoxicity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 29251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peripheral neuropathies; antineoplastic drugs; animal models
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Interests: neurotoxicity; peripheral nerve; mechanisms; axonal and myelin damage; risk factors; toxic substances; diagnosis; rehabilitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The exposure to toxic agents can frequently cause nerve damage leading to neuropathy. These agents may include drugs (antibiotics, antiretroviral agents, cardiac medications, chemotherapy, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, lithium, TNF-alpha inhibitors, and warfare drugs, for example), organic solvents, heavy metals, alcohol, biologicals, and other substances.
Most mechanisms of toxic neuropathy include axonal degeneration, impairment of axonal transport, damage of myelin and of peripheral neuron energy metabolism, as well as toxicity at Ranvier node, ion channels, and small fibers. Clinically, patients may suffer from numbness, tingling, pain, walking difficulties, sensory deficits, autonomic and motor disturbances, weakness, and often from neuropathic pain, which make toxic neuropathy difficult to diagnose. Symptoms usually have an insidious onset, sometimes shortly after exposure to toxics.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the research on the established knowledge as well as on open issues regarding toxic neuropathy. Studies that report insights into:
- The mechanisms of toxic neuropathies of all types and origins (accidental or not accidental exposure to toxic substances) as well as on the evaluation and discussion of the risk factors and susceptibilities (e.g., genetic, environment, patients’ history and social condition, pre-existing neuropathy);
- The indirect mechanisms of neuropathy development, discussing subtle ways of contracting the disease (e.g., aerosols, environment, nutrition);
- The diagnosis, preventive strategies, time course of the disease, as well as the available and experimental therapeutic options;
- The improvement of the awareness of toxic neuropathies and the identification of medical conditions;
- Rehabilitation, medical, and social solutions
are encouraged. Preclinical and clinical research as well as translational research are welcome.
Authors are invited to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications with no limitations in terms of number of pages or words. Moreover, tables and figures that can help in summarizing and/or focusing on important issues can be added in support of the text.
Dr. Valentina Alda Carozzi
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grisold
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurotoxicity
- peripheral nerve
- mechanisms
- axonal and myelin damage
- risk factors
- toxic substances
- diagnosis
- rehabilitation
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