Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades

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	Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades
	Ma, Minghao; Wang, Ruixia; Xu, Lining; Xu, Ming; Liu, Sijin
刊名	ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
	2020-12
卷号	145 页码:1-9
关键词	Uranium contamination Human exposure Health risk Chemotoxicity Toxicological mechanism
ISSN号	0160-4120
英文摘要	Uranium contamination is a global health concern. Regarding natural or anthropogenic uranium contamination, the major sources of concern are groundwater, mining, phosphate fertilizers, nuclear facilities, and military activities. Many epidemiological and laboratory studies have demonstrated that environmental and occupational uranium exposure can induce multifarious health problems. Uranium exposure may cause health risks because of its chemotoxicity and radiotoxicity in natural or anthropogenic scenarios: the former is generally thought to play a more significant role with regard to the natural uranium exposure, and the latter is more relevant to enriched uranium exposure. The understanding of the health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium remains at a preliminary stage, and many controversial findings require further research. In order to present state-of-the-art status in this field, this review will primarily focus on the chemotoxicity of uranium, rather than its radiotoxicity, as well as the involved toxicological mechanisms. First, the natural or anthropogenic uranium contamination scenarios will be briefly summarized. Second, the health risks upon natural uranium exposure, for example, nephrotoxicity, bone toxicity, reproductive toxicity, hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and pulmonary toxicity, will be discussed based on the reported epidemiological cases and laboratory studies. Third, the recent advances regarding the toxicological mechanisms of uranium-induced chemotoxicity will be highlighted, including oxidative stress, genetic damage, protein impairment, inflammation, and metabolic disorder. Finally, the gaps and challenges in the knowledge of uranium-induced chemotoxicity and underlying mechanisms will be discussed.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/44671]
专题	生态环境研究中心_环境化学与生态毒理学国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Minghao,Wang, Ruixia,Xu, Lining,et al. Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades[J]. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL,2020,145:1-9.
APA	Ma, Minghao,Wang, Ruixia,Xu, Lining,Xu, Ming,&Liu, Sijin.(2020).Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades.ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL,145,1-9.
MLA	Ma, Minghao,et al."Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades".ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 145(2020):1-9.