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Assessing the human health risks of perfluorooctane sulfonate by in vivo and in vitro studies
- Source :
- Environment International, Vol 126, Iss, Pp 598-610 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2019.
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Abstract
- The wide use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) has led to increasing concern about its human health risks over the past decade. In vivo and in vitro studies are important and effective means to ascertain the toxic effects of PFOS on humans and its toxic mechanisms. This article systematically reviews the human health risks of PFOS based on the currently known facts found by in vivo and in vitro studies from 2008 to 2018. Exposure to PFOS has caused hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, immunotoxicity, thyroid disruption, cardiovascular toxicity, pulmonary toxicity, and renal toxicity in laboratory animals and many in vitro human systems. These results and related epidemiological studies confirmed the human health risks of PFOS, especially for exposure via food and drinking water. Oxidative stress and physiological process disruption based on fatty acid similarity were widely studied mechanisms of PFOS toxicity. Future research for assessing the human health risks of PFOS is recommended in the chronic toxicity and molecular mechanisms, the application of various omics, and the integration of toxicological and epidemiological data. Keywords: PFOS, Human health risk, In vivo, In vitro
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Pulmonary toxicity
010501 environmental sciences
Bioinformatics
01 natural sciences
Risk Assessment
chemistry.chemical_compound
In vivo
Medicine
Animals
Humans
Adverse effect
Chronic toxicity
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
lcsh:GE1-350
Fluorocarbons
business.industry
Neurotoxicity
medicine.disease
Perfluorooctane
chemistry
Alkanesulfonic Acids
Toxicity
Environmental Pollutants
Reproductive toxicity
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01604120
- Volume :
- 126
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environment International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0ab5a363341bdd9294b7d5a3315f94d8