Endocrine Disruptors Exposure, Health Risk Assessment and Human Biomonitoring
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 2054
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental/atmospheric process modeling; advanced human exposure science; health impact assessment of environmental stressors; neural computation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
EDCs are defined as exogenous substances resulting in perturbations of the endocrine system and consequently cause adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or in (sub)populations. Exposure to EDCs is especially hazardous during certain periods of development (susceptibility windows) and has a strong influence on health throughout the whole life course. Given the above, there is a need to strengthen knowledge about EDCs in mixtures and alone; to improve methods of testing that enable the identification of EDCs; to find the most effective ways of reducing exposure and, thereby, vulnerability to disease; to collect data from areas that have not been sufficiently surveyed; to create environments that promote and enable scientific progress, innovation, and disease prevention; and to promote research aimed at better understanding exposure to EDCs and their relation to adverse health outcomes. Based on the above, a better understanding of both exposure to EDCs (using both bottom-up estimates and assimilation of human biomonitoring data), as well the health effects posed by EDCs is necessary. In this sense, manuscripts that provide new knowledge on advanced exposure and health risk assessment (e.g., NAMs, omics, systems biology models, AOPs) are more than welcomed in this Special Issue.
Dr. Spyros Karakitsios
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- EDCs
- exposure
- mixtures
- NAMs
- omics
- AOPs
- health effects
- risk assessment
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