Athanasios Valavanidis
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Recent Articles
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Potential toxicity and safety evaluation of nanomaterials for the respiratory system and lung cancer
Vlachogianni T, Fiotakis K, Loridas S, Perdicaris S, Valavanidis A
Lung Cancer (Auckl)
. 2017 Feb;
4:71-82.
PMID: 28210136
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are a diverse group of materials finding increasing use in manufacturing, computing, food, pharmaceuticals, and biomedicine due to their very small size and exceptional properties. Health and...
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Valavanidis A, Vlachogianni T, Fiotakis K, Loridas S
Int J Environ Res Public Health
. 2013 Aug;
10(9):3886-907.
PMID: 23985773
Reactive oxygen or nitrogen species (ROS, RNS) and oxidative stress in the respiratory system increase the production of mediators of pulmonary inflammation and initiate or promote mechanisms of carcinogenesis. The...
3.
Valavanidis A, Vlachogianni T, Fiotakis K
Int J Environ Res Public Health
. 2009 May;
6(2):445-62.
PMID: 19440393
Tobacco smoke contains many toxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic chemicals, as well as stable and unstable free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the particulate and the gas phase with...
4.
Valavanidis A, Vlachogianni T, Fiotakis C
J Environ Sci Health C Environ Carcinog Ecotoxicol Rev
. 2009 May;
27(2):120-39.
PMID: 19412858
There is extensive experimental evidence that oxidative damage permanently occurs to lipids of cellular membranes, proteins, and DNA. In nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, 8-hydroxy-2' -deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) or 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2' -deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG)...
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Valavanidis A, Fiotakis K, Vlachogianni T
J Environ Sci Health C Environ Carcinog Ecotoxicol Rev
. 2008 Nov;
26(4):339-62.
PMID: 19034792
Air pollution has been considered a hazard to human health. In the past decades, many studies highlighted the role of ambient airborne particulate matter (PM) as an important environmental pollutant...
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Valavanidis A, Iliopoulos N, Fiotakis K, Gotsis G
Waste Manag Res
. 2008 Jul;
26(3):247-55.
PMID: 18649572
Medical waste from hospitals and other healthcare institutions has become an imperative environmental and public safety problem. Medical waste in Greece has become one of the most urgent environmental problems,...
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Valavanidis A, Loridas S, Vlahogianni T, Fiotakis K
J Hazard Mater
. 2008 Jul;
162(2-3):886-92.
PMID: 18602214
Epidemiologic studies suggest that ozone (O(3)) and airborne particulate matter (PM) can interact causing acute respiratory inflammation and other respiratory diseases. Recent studies investigated the hypothesis that the effects of...
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Valavanidis A, Iliopoulos N, Gotsis G, Fiotakis K
J Hazard Mater
. 2008 Feb;
156(1-3):277-84.
PMID: 18249066
The production and use of polymeric materials worldwide has reached levels of 150 million tonnes per year, and the majority of plastic materials are discarded in waste landfills where are...
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Vlahogianni T, Dassenakis M, Scoullos M, Valavanidis A
Mar Pollut Bull
. 2007 Jul;
54(9):1361-71.
PMID: 17624376
Mussels are used as sentinel organisms and bioindicators to evaluate the toxic effects of chemical pollutants in marine organisms, especially heavy metals, representing an important tool for biomonitoring environmental pollution...
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Valavanidis A, Fiotakis K, Vlahogianni T, Bakeas E, Triantafillaki S, Paraskevopoulou V, et al.
Chemosphere
. 2006 May;
65(5):760-8.
PMID: 16674985
The concentrations of trace metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) adsorbed to total suspended particulate (TSP) and finer fractions of airborne particulate matter (PM) were determined from a site in...