1st Edition

Environmental Stressors and OxInflammatory Tissues Responses

Edited By Giuseppe Valacchi, Andreas Daiber Copyright 2024
301 Pages 11 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

301 Pages 11 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Environmental risk factors – noise, air pollution, chemical agents, and ultraviolet radiation –  impact human health by contributing to the onset and progression of noncommunicable diseases. Accordingly, there is need for preclinical and clinical studies and comprehensive summary of major findings. This book is a state-of-the-art summary of these myriad severe life stressors. The chapters on... Read more

Section 1 - Conceptual

Chapter 1

Man-made environment or living in the Anthropocene – a major health risk factor in the 21st century

Andreas Daiber and Giuseppe Valacchi

Chapter 2

The exposome concept – description of life-long environmental exposure effects on metabolism, health and disease

Andreas Daiber, Giuseppe Valacchi, Matthias Oelze, Marin Kuntic, Thomas Münzel

Chapter 3

Problems related to the use of biomarkers of oxidative stress in disease

Pietro Ghezzi & Henry Jay Forman

 

Section 2 - Airborne toxins

 

Chapter 4

Formation, interconversion, and buffering of reactive oxygen species from gaseous and particulate air pollutants in epithelial lining fluid

Thomas Berkemeier & Ulrich Pöschl

Chapter 5

Chemical modification of proteins by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species under atmospheric and physiological conditions

Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky, Kurt Lucas, Thomas Berkemeier, Ulrich Pöschl

Chapter 6

Air pollution and neuropsychiatric disease

Omar Hahad, Thomas Münzel, Donya A. Gilan, Maria Teresa Bayo Jimenez, Jasmin Ghaemi Kerahrodi

Chapter 7

Underlying mechanisms of the effects of particulate matter in primary and distant organs

Natalia Magnani, Timoteo Marchini, Agustina Freire, Sofía Reynoso, Silvia Alvarez, Pablo Evelson

Chapter 8

The ocular surface as a target of air pollution

Romina M. Lasagni Vitar, Ailen Gala Hvozda Arana, Timoteo Marchini, Pablo A. Evelson, Sandra M. Ferreira

Section 3 - Other chemical pollutants

Chapter 9

Environmental heavy metals, oxidative stress and disease potential – NRF2 centered genetic and epigenetic mechanisms

Xinpei Lin, Fuli Zheng, Filipe Marques Gonçalves, Yumi Abiko, Huangyuan Li, Yoshito Kumagai, Michael Aschner

Chapter 10

Insights into the non-coding-RNA regulation of environmental stress-induced disease

Veronica Miguel & Cristina Espinosa-Diez

Chapter 11

Oxidative and inflammatory potential of nano/microplastics in living organisms

Konrad Wojnarowski, Moyan Hu, Dusan Palić

Chapter 12
Micro- and nanoplastics contamination: an emerging environmental issue for skin health
Alessandra Pecorelli & Giuseppe Valacchi

Chapter 13

Waterpipe smoking and e-cigarettes: a safer alternative to combustible cigarettes?

Andre Faria, Arthur Faria, Ismail Laher

Chapter 14

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor as an environmental sensor and mediator of stress and inflammation

Christoph F. Vogel & T. Haarmann-Stemmann

 

Section 4 - Other physical stressors (Noise & UV & EMF)

Chapter 15

Oxidative stress and inflammation contribute to traffic noise-induced vascular and cerebral dysfunction via uncoupling of nitric oxide synthases

Katie Frenis, Omar Hahad, Thomas Münzel, Andreas Daiber

Chapter 16

Noise pollution and neuropsychiatric disease

Omar Hahad, Thomas Münzel, Donya A. Gilan, Maria Teresa Bayo Jimenez, Jasmin Ghaemi Kerahrodi

Chapter 17

Imaging of metabolic activity adaptations to UV stress and differentiation at cellular resolution in skin and skin equivalents – Implications for oxidative UV damage

Florian Gruber & Christopher Kremslehner

Chapter 18

Adverse health effects of UV on skin and other organs

Giuseppe Valacchi & Francesca Ferrara

Chapter 19

Mechanistic insights into EMFs induced neuronal oxidative damage

Giorgia Innamorati, Barbara Benassi, Claudia Consales

 

Section 5 - Mental stress

Chapter 20

How adverse childhood experiences increase inflammation and oxidative stress

Jasmin Ghaemi Kerahrodi & Matthias Michal

Chapter 21

The role of oxidative stress in cardiovascular disease caused by social isolation and loneliness

Huige Li & Ning Xia

Biography

Giuseppe Valacchi, PhD, is David H. Murdock Distinguished Professor and Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the North Carolina State University. In addition, he is Professor of Physiology at the University of Ferrara, Adjunct Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea and President Elect for the SFRR-Europe. He earned his PhD in Cellular Physiology and Neuro-Immunophysiology from the University of Siena, Italy, followed by postdoctoral training at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley and at the Pulmonary Division, University of California-Davis, and as Senior Researcher in the Department of Nutrition, University of California-Davis. Dr. Valacchi’s research focuses on the effect of pollution (ozone, ultraviolet radiation, particulate matter and cigarette smoke) on target organs with emphasis on skin and also lung and gastrointestinal tract. His research significantly contributed to the mechanism and the possible protection of skin towards ozone exposure and more in general to the OxInflammatory responses, including NLRP1 and NLRP3 inflammasome activation, induced by pollution exposure.

Andreas Daiber, PhD, earned his PhD in Biological Chemistry from the University of Konstanz and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Konstanz and Experimental Cardiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany, where he now is Professor and Head of Molecular Cardiology. In 2011 he was appointed a guest professorship at University of Grenoble, France, where he worked on protein nitration and redox-activation of sources of oxidative stress (crosstalk of NADPH oxidases and mitochondria) with Professor Schlattner. From 2014-2016, he was the chair of the European COST Action EU-ROS, a network of excellence with more than 230 participating scientists, dedicated to the mechanistic understanding and therapeutic exploitation of redox biological pathways and antioxidant pharmacological approaches. Dr. Daiber has a longtime research interest in oxidative stress-related cardiovascular disease and redox-regulation of vascular function. More recently, he investigates the effects of environmental stressors such as traffic noise and particulate matter on cardiovascular and metabolic function in humans and model organisms and has identified oxidative stress and inflammation as central players in mediating vascular dysfunction as well as (non-)pharmacological mitigation strategies related to antioxidant response such as NRF2 activation, exercise and fasting.