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ReviewToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2022

The Exposome and Toxicology: A Win-Win Collaboration.

Robert Barouki, Karine Audouze, Christel Becker, Ludek Blaha, Xavier Coumoul, Spyros Karakitsios, Jana Klanova, Gary W Miller, Elliott J Price, Denis Sarigiannis

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Review in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Relevance and challenges of exposome studies for environmental health research.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026
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  12. Global research trends on the human exposome: a bibliometric analysis (2005-2024).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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  14. Ṯābit Ibn QurraNaunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  18. Endocrine responses to environmental variation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Robert BaroukiInserm UMR S-1124, Université de Paris, T3S, Paris F-75006, France.
Karine AudouzeInserm UMR S-1124, Université de Paris, T3S, Paris F-75006, France.
Christel BeckerInserm UMR S-1124, Université de Paris, T3S, Paris F-75006, France.
Ludek BlahaRECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 60200, Czech Republic.
Xavier CoumoulInserm UMR S-1124, Université de Paris, T3S, Paris F-75006, France.
Spyros KarakitsiosCenter for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, HERACLES Research Center on the Exposome and Health, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece.
Jana KlanovaRECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 60200, Czech Republic.
Gary W MillerDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8984-1284
Elliott J PriceRECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 60200, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-5691-7000
Denis SarigiannisCenter for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, HERACLES Research Center on the Exposome and Health, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece.
Inserm · FRMasaryk University · CZAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRColumbia University · USHôpital Necker-Enfants Malades · FR

Funding

U2C Experimental CoreU2CES030163 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JONES, DEAN PAUL, LI, SHUZHAO · 2018 to 2021
$3.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS U2C ES030163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of the exposome concept has been one of the hallmarks of environmental and health research for the last decade. The exposome encompasses the life course environmental exposures including lifestyle factors from the prenatal period onwards. It has inspired many research programs and is expected to influence environmental and health research, practices, and policies. Yet, the links bridging toxicology and the exposome concept have not been well developed. In this review, we describe how the exposome framework can interface with and influence the field of toxicology, as well as how the field of toxicology can help advance the exposome field by providing the needed mechanistic understanding of the exposome impacts on health. Indeed, exposome-informed toxicology is expected to emphasize several orientations including (1) developing approaches integrating multiple stressors, in particular chemical mixtures, as well as the interaction of chemicals with other stressors, (2) using mechanistic frameworks such as the adverse outcome pathways to link the different stressors with toxicity outcomes, (3) characterizing the mechanistic basis of long-term effects by distinguishing different patterns of exposures and further exploring the environment-DNA interface through genetic and epigenetic studies, and (4) improving the links between environmental and human health, in particular through a stronger connection between alterations in our ecosystems and human toxicology. The exposome concept provides the linkage between the complex environment and contemporary mechanistic toxicology. What toxicology can bring to exposome characterization is a needed framework for mechanistic understanding and regulatory outcomes in risk assessment.

Indexed as

ExposomeEcosystemEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansLife StylePregnancyRisk Assessmentadverse outcome pathwayschemical toxicityepigeneticsmixturesmultiple stress

Identifiers

PMID34878125
PMCPMC9019839
OpenAlexW4200604761

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Registered trials

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