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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 244, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114021
Keywords
Environmental toxins; Public health; Drinking water; Fluorosis; Brain damage
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- Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Project [2017GSF218043]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20151159]
- Xuzhou Technological and Sci-entific Project [KC14SH050]
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This article reviews the effects of chronic fluorosis on the brain and possible mechanisms. It was found that chronic fluorosis can cause brain damage, resulting in abnormal brain structure and function. Chronic fluorosis also leads to a decline in concentration, learning, and memory, as well as mental symptoms such as anxiety, tension, and depression. Although several possible mechanisms have been proposed, the specific mechanism of chronic fluorosis on brain damage is still unclear.
This article reviews the effects of chronic fluorosis on the brain and possible mechanisms. We used PubMed, Medline and Cochraine databases to collect data on fluorosis, brain injury, and pathogenesis. A large number of in vivo and in vitro studies and epidemiological investigations have found that chronic fluorosis can cause brain damage, resulting in abnormal brain structure and brain function.Chronic fluorosis not only causes a decline in concentration, learning, and memory, but also has mental symptoms such as anxiety, tension, and depression. Several possible mechanisms that have been proposed: the oxidative stress and inflammation theory, neural cell apoptosis theory, neurotransmitter imbalance theory, as well as the doctrine of the interaction of fluorine with other elements. However, the specific mechanism of chronic fluorosis on brain damage is still unclear. Thus, a better understanding of the mechanisms via which chronic fluorosis causes brain damage is of great significance to protect the physical and mental health of people in developing countries, especially those living in the endemic areas of fluorosis. In brief, further investigation concerning the influence of fluoride on the brain should be conducted as the neural damage induced by it may bring about a huge problem in public health, especially considering growing environmental pollution.
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