Metal nanoparticles as a global anthropogenic environmental pollutant: industrial hygienic, physicochemical, experimental toxicological and clinical aspects of hazard

Abstract

The article summarizes the data of long-term field hygienic, physicochemical, experimental and clinical research conducted at the Department of Hygiene, Occupational Safety and Health of the Bogomolets National Medical University to study the impact of metal nanoparticles on human health. It has been shown that the toxicity of nanoparticles depends primarily on the ways they enter the body. In addition to the polytropic general toxic effect, nanoparticles have immunotoxic and genotoxic effects, as well as fibrogenic effects, leading to moderately pronounced slowly progressive pneumosclerosis and pneumofibrosis.

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Yavorovsky O.P. Metal nanoparticles as a global anthropogenic environmental pollutant: industrial hygienic, physicochemical, experimental toxicological and clinical aspects of hazard. Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2025. (4): 3—22. https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.04.003