Enhancing Population’s Resistance to Toxic Exposures as an Auxilliary Tool of Decreasing Environmental and Occupational Health Risks (a Self-Overview)

作     者：Boris A. Katsnelson Larisa I. Privalova Vladimir B. Gurvich Sergey V. Kuzmin Ekaterina P. Kireyeva Ilzira A. Minigalieva Marina P. Sutunkova Nadezhda V. Loginova Olga L. Malykh Sergey V. Yarushin Julia I. Soloboyeva Natalia I. Kochneva 

作者机构：Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection in Industrial Workers Ekaterinburg Russian Federation Sverdlovsk Regional Office of the Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Protection of the Consumers’ Rights and Well-Being of a Person (Rospotrebnadzor) Ekaterinburg Russian Federation 

出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Protection》 (环境保护（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第14期

页      面：1435-1449页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Environmental Pollution Health Risks Bio-Protectors 

摘      要：Environment chemical pollution can be persistent, and even virtually irremovable. For some chemicals in the workplace environment reliably safe low exposure levels are technically unattainable or presumably nonexistent. As a supplement to decreasing harmful exposures to as low levels as possible, the “biological prophylaxis aims at enhancing host’s protective mechanisms. During over 30 years in animal experiments modeling isolated or combined chronic or subchronic exposures to silica, asbestos, monazite, lead, chromium, arsenic, manganese, nickel, vanadium, nanosilver, nanocopper, formaldehyde, phenol, naphthalene, benzo(a)pyrene we tested so-called “bioprophylatic complexes (BPCs) comprising innocuous substances with theoretically expected beneficial influence on the toxicokinetics and/or toxicodynamics of those toxics. The BPCs proved protectively effective in animal experiments were then subjected to controlled field trials on restricted groups of volunteers. Once the effectiveness and safety of a BPC was established, it was recommended for practical use, first of all, in the most vulnerable population groups (children, pregnant women) and in the most harmful occupations. At each stage of this work the effectiveness of the bioprophylactic approach to chemical risks management was successfully demonstrated. The BPCs tested up to now proved capable of mitigating systemic toxicity, cytotoxicity, fibrogenicity, and mutagenicity of the above-listed chemicals.