Molecular biomarkers to assess health risk to environmental contaminants.
Biomarkers or bioindicators are metric tools that, when compared with reference values, allow specialists to perform risk assessments, and provide objective information to decision makers in order to design effective strategies to solve health or environmental problems by efficiently using the resou...
| Publicado en: | Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 2 - 84 |
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Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lth&AN=115468261&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: lth uiTerm: 115468261 longDbName: MedicLatina uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01204157 3ANP jtl: Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud issn: 01204157 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: jun2016 vid: 36 iid: 2 pid: 35431 pub: Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia artinfo: ui: 115468261 10.7705/biomedica.v36i3.2998 ppf: 2 ppct: 82 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 9.7MB tig: atl: Molecular biomarkers to assess health risk to environmental contaminants. aug: au: Poblete-Naredo, Irais Albores, Arnulfo affil: Departamento de Toxicología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Pedagógico Nacional, Distrito Federal, México su: Biomarkers Health risk assessment Pollutants Health resorts Medical care sug: subj: Biomarkers Health risk assessment Pollutants Health resorts Medical care keyword: biological markers environmental pollutants molecular biology molecular epidemiology risk assessment biología molecular contaminantes ambientales epidemiología molecular marcadores biológicos medición del riesgo ab: Biomarkers or bioindicators are metric tools that, when compared with reference values, allow specialists to perform risk assessments, and provide objective information to decision makers in order to design effective strategies to solve health or environmental problems by efficiently using the resources assigned. Health risk assessment is a multidisciplinary exercise, being molecular biology a discipline that greatly contributes to these evaluations, since genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome could be affected by xenobiotics causing measurable changes that might be useful biomarkers. Such changes may greatly depend on individual genetic background; therefore, the polymorphic distribution of exposed populations becomes an essential feature for an adequate data interpretation. Then, the aim of this paper is to perform an up to date review of the role of different molecular biomarkers applicable to health risk assessments. Los biomarcadores o bioindicadores son herramientas métricas que, cuando se comparan con valores de referencia, permiten a los especialistas evaluar riesgos y generar información objetiva que permita a las autoridades planear estrategias efectivas y solucionar problemas de salud o ambientales, utilizando de manera eficiente los recursos asignados a tal fin. La evaluación de riesgos a la salud es un ejercicio multidisciplinario, siendo la Biología Molecular una disciplina que contribuye enormemente a estos estudios, dado que tanto el genoma, transcriptoma, proteoma y metaboloma pueden ser afectados por xenobióticos causando cambios medibles que pueden servir para tomar decisiones. Dichos cambios pueden variar por la carga genética de cada individuo y, por lo tanto, la distribución polimórfica de las poblaciones expuestas se convierte en un factor esencial para realizar una adecuada interpretación de resultados. Por lo tanto, el objetivo del presente artículo es llevar a cabo una revisión actualizada de los diferentes biomarcadores moleculares aplicables a la evaluación de riesgos a la salud asociada a contaminantes ambientales. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud is the property of Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud holder: Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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