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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Oxidative Stress, Environmental Pollutants, Aging, and Epigenetic Regulation: Mechanistic Insights and Biomarker Advances.

Minelly Krystal Gonzalez Acevedo, Michael Powers, Luca Cucullo

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Minelly Krystal Gonzalez AcevedoDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-1550-5874
Michael PowersDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4293-9756
Luca CuculloDepartment of Foundation Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, 586 Pioneer Dr, Rochester, MI 48309, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2827-7162

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental pollutants, lifestyle factors, and intrinsic metabolism can amplify reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) generation beyond antioxidant capacity. The resulting oxidative stress damages macromolecules, perturbs redox signaling, and may accelerate biological aging. This review synthesizes evidence published mainly in 2020-2025 on how major pollutant classes (air pollutants, metals, pesticides, nanoparticles, and micro-/nanoplastics) induce ROS through shared nodes mitochondrial electron transport disruption, NADPH oxidase activation, and redox cycling/Fenton chemistry and how these signals propagate to epigenetic remodeling (DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs). To move beyond descriptive cataloging, we grade the strength of evidence by study context (cell culture, animal models, human observational studies, and clinically oriented biomarker research), highlight convergent findings and unresolved controversies, and specify key methodological limits. We then compare oxidative-stress biomarker platforms by analytical specificity, pre-analytical susceptibility, and translational readiness, distinguishing validated markers from exploratory redox-epigenetic and multi-omics signatures. Finally, we discuss how exposomics and AI-assisted multi-omics integration may support biomarker discovery while emphasizing current constraints (confounding, batch effects, and limited prospective validation) that must be addressed for clinical translation.

Indexed as

biological agingbiomarkersDNA methylationenvironmental pollutantsepigeneticsexposomicshistone modificationsmitochondriaNADPH oxidasenon-coding RNAoxidative stressredox signaling

Identifiers

PMID42072137
PMCPMC13114043

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