Particulate Matter and Nanoparticles Toxicology

Call for Papers

Contamination with airborne particulate matter (PM) has been of main interest in the last 20 years, although the relationship between air pollution and health has been identified since the 1950s. In recent years, the toxicological, epidemiological, and clinical evaluations of the effects of PM have shown that the adverse health outcomes are related to pulmonary and systemic effects. The rise of the nanotechnology and the use of nanomaterial in a wide range of products like textiles, cosmetics, and pharmacology attracted the attention of the scientific community, and several reports link the exposure to nanoparticles with possible health effects which is a hot topic. Despite the fact that epidemiological and toxicological research has shown that different types of particles have similar effects, based on concentration, there is also evidence that the composition and the size of particles play an important role in the intensity of the biological effects.

We would like to invite you to submit an article for this special issue covering the state of the art in the fields of epidemiology, in vivo and in vitro toxicology, and the characterization of particles and nanoparticles. We welcome both original papers and reviews for this special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Epidemiology of pulmonary effects related to particulate matter
• Epidemiology of systemic effects related to particulate matter
• Evaluation of exposure biomarkers to particulate matter and nanomaterials
• In vivo toxicological evaluations of particulate matter and nanomaterials
• In vitro toxicological evaluations of PM and nanomaterials
• Characterization of physicochemical and biological components of PM and nanomaterials

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jbb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno, Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Mexico, DF, Mexico

Guest Editors

• Per Schwarze, Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
• Irma Rosas, Aerobiology Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences Center, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, MEX, Mexico
• Abderrahim Nemmar, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
• Tim Nawrot, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; Department of Public Health, Leuven University (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium