World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

*Okezie V. Ikpeazu and Kalu K. Igwe

ABSTRACT

Human activities including industrialization and urbanization have continued to impact on the environment, leading to rapid increase in environmental pollution. Exposure to various levels of pollution have affected and is still affecting man emotionally, psychologically and health wise, even leading to deleterious effects on the unborn babies. With the living tissues, there are certain chemical processes through which the environmental pollutants impact living systems. This informed the decision of the authors to compile a book ?THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION?, which attempts to highlight the molecular basis of the many impacts of environmental pollution, in-vivo; starting with general principles in the relationship between Environmental impact, Biochemistry; The concept of pollution, Environmental Biochemistry and Toxicology; Pollution control; Acid, Bases and importance of Acid/Base balance; macromolecules such as; Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins and Nucleic Acids; Teratogenicity; Vitamins, then Detoxification and Metabolism of Foreign Compounds: the authors are committed to the following goal: • To use fundamental Biochemical principles to approach environmental issues. • To cover the principles needed to understand Toxicological/ Biochemical mechanisms as a result of environmental toxicants. • Elementary understanding of Biomolecules and their simple biochemical structures and roles. • To highlight the nexus between a breach in normal biochemical processes and attendant deleterious impact of common Environmental Pollutants to man and animals.

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