BioMed Research International

Particulate Matter and Nanoparticles Toxicology


Publishing date
18 Jan 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
07 Sep 2012

1Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Mexico, DF, Mexico

2Aerobiology Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences Center, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, MEX, Mexico

3Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

4Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

5Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; Department of Public Health, Leuven University (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium


Particulate Matter and Nanoparticles Toxicology

Description

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:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 642974
  • - Editorial

Particulate Matter and Nanoparticles Toxicology

Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno | Tim S. Nawrot | ... | Per Schwarze
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 279371
  • - Review Article

Recent Advances in Particulate Matter and Nanoparticle Toxicology: A Review of the In Vivo and In Vitro Studies

Abderrahim Nemmar | Jørn A. Holme | ... | Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 685142
  • - Review Article

Inflammation-Related Effects of Diesel Engine Exhaust Particles: Studies on Lung Cells In Vitro

P. E. Schwarze | A. I. Totlandsdal | ... | J. Øvrevik
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 161687
  • - Review Article

Early Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Pathology in Urban Children: Friend versus Foe Responses—It Is Time to Face the Evidence

Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas | Maricela Franco-Lira | ... | Michael Kavanaugh
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 734137
  • - Research Article

The CULTEX RFS: A Comprehensive Technical Approach for the In Vitro Exposure of Airway Epithelial Cells to the Particulate Matter at the Air-Liquid Interface

Michaela Aufderheide | Beat Halter | ... | Dieter Hochrainer
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 158093
  • - Research Article

Release of IL-1β Triggered by Milan Summer PM10: Molecular Pathways Involved in the Cytokine Release

Rossella Bengalli | Elisabetta Molteni | ... | Maurizio Gualtieri
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 521728
  • - Research Article

Air Pollutant Characterization in Tula Industrial Corridor, Central Mexico, during the MILAGRO Study

G. Sosa | E. Vega | ... | D. López-Veneroni
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 382058
  • - Research Article

Dehydroepiandrosterone Protects Endothelial Cells against Inflammatory Events Induced by Urban Particulate Matter and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles

Elizabeth Huerta-García | Angélica Montiél-Dávalos | ... | Rebeca López-Marure
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 923475
  • - Research Article

Prior Lung Inflammation Impacts on Body Distribution of Gold Nanoparticles

Salik Hussain | Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek | ... | Peter H. M. Hoet
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 652632
  • - Research Article

Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress Responses of an Alveolar Epithelial Cell Line to Airborne Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles at the Air-Liquid Interface: A Comparison with Conventional, Submerged Cell-Culture Conditions

Anke-Gabriele Lenz | Erwin Karg | ... | Otmar Schmid
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