Toxico-Pathological Interactions in Animals and Human
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecotoxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 1730
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecotoxicology; toxicology; honey bee; physiology; biochemistry; cell biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organisms are frequently exposed to chemicals of various natures and origins. These substances may elicit lethal effects and adverse sublethal behavioral and physiological effects at different exposure levels. However, in the environment, organisms are not exposed to a single substance but to combinations of substances, including pollutants, drugs and natural exogenous substances, that can induce additive, synergistic and antagonistic interactions. In addition to toxicants, organisms are also exposed to ancestral companions, the infectious agents, whose action depends not only on their intrinsic biology but also on the physiological state of the host that may be impaired by stresses of different natures. Thus, when combined, chemicals and infectious agents are likely to act together to produce toxico-pathological interactions that could be deleterious to the host.
The studies on toxico-pathological interactions are of particular concern because they can occur at low noise in which each stressor alone does not induce observed effects. In addition, although organisms may be exposed simultaneously to chemicals and infectious agents, sequential exposure may occur and lead to the sensitization of an organism to pathogens by chemicals and the sensitization of organisms to chemicals by pathogens.
In the frame of this Special Issue, we are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts dealing with studies on the toxico-pathological interactions between two types of stressors, chemicals and infectious agents.
This Special Issue aims at selecting studies that enables demonstrating the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms through whichever way they act and at understanding how chemicals may induce their adverse effects.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Effects of simultaneous exposures to stressors;
- Effects of sequential exposures to stressors that enable evidencing the sensitization of the organisms to one stressor by another stressor;
- Action of chemicals on the efficacity of drugs towards pathogenic agents. The demonstration of any type of effects (additive, synergistic or antagonistic) will be considered along will mechanistic studies.
The submitted studies can be distributed in three main topics:
- Toxico-pathological interactions in terrestrial invertebrates: Although all research subjects are of interest, studies on the effects of pesticides on insects (particularly pollinators) and soil organisms will be the object of a special attention;
- Toxico-pathological interactions in aquatic organisms;
- Toxico-pathological interactions in terrestrial/aerial vertebrates. This topic includes research on mammals and animal models for human pathologies.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Luc P. Belzunces
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- chemicals
- pollutants
- pesticides
- drugs
- pathogens
- infectious agents
- vertebrates
- invertebrates
- cocktail effect
- adverse interactions
