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