Traffic-related air pollution, particulate matter, and autism.
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Exposure to traffic-related air pollution, nitrogen dioxide, PM2.5, and PM10 during pregnancy and during the first year of life was associated with autism.Citations
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Is there a link between air pollution and mental disorders
Massimiliano Buoli,Silvia Grassi,Alice Caldiroli,Greta Silvia Carnevali,Francesco Mucci,Simona Iodice,Laura Cantone,Laura Pergoli,Valentina Bollati +8 more
TL;DR: The purpose of the present manuscript was to review and summarize available data about an association between psychiatric disorders and air pollution, and to confirm the results of available literature.
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Neurotoxicants Are in the Air: Convergence of Human, Animal, and In Vitro Studies on the Effects of Air Pollution on the Brain
TL;DR: Human and animal studies suggest that air pollution (and DE) may cause developmental neurotoxicity and may contribute to the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autistic spectrum disorders.
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Current Knowledge on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) from Animal Biology to Humans, from Pregnancy to Adulthood: Highlights from a National Italian Meeting
Maria E. Street,Sabrina Angelini,Sergio Bernasconi,Ernesto Burgio,Alessandra Cassio,Cecilia Catellani,Francesca Cirillo,Annalisa Deodati,Enrica Fabbrizi,Vassilios Fanos,Giancarlo Gargano,Enzo Grossi,Lorenzo Iughetti,Pietro Lazzeroni,Alberto Mantovani,Lucia Migliore,Paola Palanza,Giancarlo Panzica,Anna Maria Papini,Stefano Parmigiani,Barbara Predieri,Chiara Sartori,Gabriele Tridenti,Sergio Amarri +23 more
TL;DR: This manuscript reviews the reports of a multidisciplinary national meeting on endocrine disrupting chemicals and suggests effects of EDCs on prenatal growth, thyroid function, glucose metabolism and obesity, puberty, fertility, and on carcinogenesis mainly through epigenetic mechanisms.
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Developmental neurotoxicity of inhaled ambient ultrafine particle air pollution: Parallels with neuropathological and behavioral features of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Joshua L. Allen,Günter Oberdörster,Keith Morris-Schaffer,Candace Wong,Carolyn Klocke,Marissa Sobolewski,Katherine Conrad,Margot Mayer-Pröschel,Deborah A. Cory-Slechta +8 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest the human 3rd trimester equivalent as a period of potential vulnerability to neurodevelopmental toxicity to UFP, particularly in males, and point to the possibility that UFP air pollution exposure during periods of rapid neuro‐ and gliogenesis may be a risk factor not only for ASD, but also for other neuro developmental disorders that share features with ASD.
Environmental chemical exposures and autism spectrum disorders: a review of the epidemiological evidence (Journal article)
TL;DR: In the past decade, the number of epidemiological publications addressing environmental chemical exposures and autism has grown tremendously as discussed by the authors, and it is now understood that environmental factors play a larger role in causing autism than previously thought and that modifiable risk factors that may open up avenues for the primary prevention of the disability associated with autism.
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TL;DR: The identified prevalence of ASDs in U.S. children aged 8 years was estimated through a systematic retrospective review of evaluation records in multiple sites participating in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network and presence of an identified ASD was determined through a review of data abstracted from developmental evaluation records by trained clinician reviewers.
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Air pollution: mechanisms of neuroinflammation and CNS disease
TL;DR: Recent findings detailing the mechanisms through which air pollution reaches the brain and activates the resident innate immune response to become a chronic source of pro-inflammatory factors and ROS, culminating in CNS disease are summarized.