REVIEW ARTICLE
Pollution Biomarkers in Environmental and Human Biomonitoring
Maria G. Lionetto*, Roberto Caricato, Maria E. Giordano
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 9
First Page: 1
Last Page: 9
Publisher ID: TOBIOMJ-9-1
DOI: 10.2174/1875318301909010001
Article History:
Received Date: 20/09/2018Revision Received Date: 06/11/2018
Acceptance Date: 14/11/2018
Electronic publication date: 31/01/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Environmental pollutants generate harmful conditions for living organisms, including humans. This accounts for the growing interest to early warning tools for detection of adverse biological responses to pollutants in both humans and wildlife. Molecular and cellular biomarkers of pollution meet this requirement. A pollution biomarker is defined as an alteration in a biological response occurring at molecular, cellular or physiological levels which can be related to exposure to or toxic effects of environmental chemicals.
Pollution biomarkers have known a growing development in human and environmental biomonitoring representing a valuable tool for early pollutant exposure detection or early effect assessment (exposure/effect biomarkers).
The review discusses the recent developments in the use of pollution biomarker in human and environmental biomonitoring and analyzes future perspectives in the application of this tool such as their potentiality for bridging human and environmental issued studies.