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Sleep and Arousal Hubs and Ferromagnetic Ultrafine Particulate Matter and Nanoparticle Motion Under Electromagnetic Fields: Neurodegeneration, Sleep Disorders, Orexinergic Neurons, and Air Pollution in Young Urbanites.

Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, Fredy Rubén Cejudo-Ruiz, Elijah W Stommel, Angélica González-Maciel, Rafael Reynoso-Robles, Héctor G Silva-Pereyra, Beatriz E Pérez-Guille, Rosa Eugenia Soriano-Rosales, Ricardo Torres-Jardón

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Article in Toxics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Lilian Calderón-GarcidueñasBiomedical Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3130-7895
Fredy Rubén Cejudo-RuizInstituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6275-0585
Elijah W StommelDepartment of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3079-3123
Angélica González-MacielInstituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-1909-9146
Rafael Reynoso-RoblesInstituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-8833-1151
Héctor G Silva-PereyraDepartment of Advance Materials, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica AC, San Luis Potosi 78216, Mexico.
Beatriz E Pérez-GuilleInstituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-7223-9449
Rosa Eugenia Soriano-RosalesInstituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico.
Ricardo Torres-JardónInstituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio Climático, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-1874-6057

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution plays a key role in sleep disorders and neurodegeneration. Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and/or transactive response DNA-binding protein TDP-43 neuropathology have been documented in children and young adult forensic autopsies in the metropolitan area of Mexico City (MMC), along with sleep disorders, cognitive deficits, and MRI brain atrophy in seemingly healthy young populations. Ultrafine particulate matter (UFPM) and industrial nanoparticles (NPs) reach urbanites' brains through nasal/olfactory, lung, gastrointestinal tract, and placental barriers. We documented Fe UFPM/NPs in neurovascular units, as well as lateral hypothalamic nucleus orexinergic neurons, thalamus, medullary, pontine, and mesencephalic reticular formation, and in pinealocytes. We quantified ferromagnetic materials in sleep and arousal brain hubs and examined their motion behavior to low magnetic fields in MMC brain autopsy samples from nine children and 25 adults with AD, PD, and TDP-43 neuropathology. Saturated isothermal remanent magnetization curves at 50-300 mT were associated with UFPM/NP accumulation in sleep/awake hubs and their motion associated with 30-50 µT (DC magnetic fields) exposure. Brain samples exposed to anthropogenic PM pollution were found to be sensitive to low magnetic fields, with motion behaviors that were potentially linked to the early development and progression of fatal neurodegenerative diseases and sleep disorders. Single-domain magnetic UFPM/NPs in the orexin system, as well as arousal, sleep, and autonomic regions, are key to neurodegeneration, behavioral and cognitive impairment, and sleep disorders. We need to identify children at higher risk and monitor environmental UFPM and NP emissions and exposures to magnetic fields. Ubiquitous ferrimagnetic particles and low magnetic field exposures are a threat to global brain health.

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air pollutionAlzheimer’santhropogenic ferrimagnetic nanoparticleselectromagnetic fieldsobesityorexinergic neuronsParkinson’ssleep/awake hubssleep disorders

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