English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Good air quality is the fundamental condition for maintaining the equilibrium of human health and ecosystems. However, starting at the time of the industrial revolution, human action has progressively introduced into the atmosphere compounds and particles that compromise the harmony of life on our planet: a process that is known as atmospheric pollution. Thus, atmospheric pollution is defined as the result from excessive introduction of compounds and particles into the air layers that surround Earth (Marcondes, 1993). There are now many sources of atmospheric pollution, and prominent among these are industrial plant, factories and automotive vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel. Among the many pollutants that compromise air quality, particularly in large urban centers, are sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides, particles and aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons, which can combine to form other compounds such as ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate, thereby giving rise to a complex mixture of pollutants in the atmosphere. The presence of these compounds in the air causes a variety of human health problems, such as abnormalities of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, allergic reactions and development of lung and tracheal cancer (Brunekreef et al., 2002; Perera et al., 2002; Traversi et al., 2008). Cancer is a disease that results from abnormalities in genes involved in controlling cell proliferation and differentiation and/or genes involved in DNA repair mechanisms and in inducing apoptosis (Hanahan & Weinberg, 2000). The association between atmospheric pollution and cancer therefore comes from the fact that many of the contaminants are mutagens, i.e. they are agents capable of inducing both point mutations (abnormalities involving only one or very few DNA bases) and chromosome aberrations (abnormalities that compromise the structure or the number of chromosomes).

Use of the Micronucleus Test on Tradescantia (Trad-MCN) to Evaluate the Genotoxic Effects of Air Pollution