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| Title: | Effects of diesel exhaust, heavy metals and pesticides on various organ systems: Possible mechanisms and strategies for prevention and treatment |
| Authors: | Gulati, Kavita
Banerjee, Basudeb
Lall, Shyam Bala
Ray, Arunabha |
| Keywords: | Antioxidants
Azadirachta indica
Diesel exhaust
Environmental toxicants
Heavy metals toxicity
Oxidative stress
Pesticides |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | Environmental pollutants have a significant
impact on the ecosystem and disrupt balance between environment, human and
non-human components that result in deleterious effects to all forms of life.
Identifying environmental factors for potential imbalance are extremely crucial
for devising strategies for combating such toxic dysregulation. Automobile
exhaust (in air), heavy metals (in food and water) and pesticides (in air,
food, soil and water) are the most common environmental pollutants and their
short and long term exposures can cause hazardous effects in humans leading to
systemic disorders involving lungs, kidney and immune systems. Mechanisms
involved in genesis of such toxic effects have revealed complex, interactive
pathways. Strategies for the protection of homeostasis and health, viz., general preventive measures,
nutritional supplements and herbal agents have been described, to counter these
pollutants induced damaging effects on various body systems. |
| Page(s): | 710-721 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print) |
| Source: | IJEB Vol.48(07) [July 2010]
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