Evaluation of urinary limonene metabolites as biomarkers of exposure to greenness.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to plants is known to improve physical and mental health and living in areas of high vegetation is associated with better health. The addition of quantitative measures of greenness exposure at individual-level to other objective and subjective study measures will help establish cause-and-effect relationships between greenspaces and human health. Because limonene is one of the most abundant biogenic volatile organic compounds emitted by plants, we hypothesized that urinary metabolites of inhaled limonene can serve as biomarkers of exposure to greenness. To test our hypothesis, we analyzed urine samples collected from eight human volunteers after limonene inhalation or after greenness exposure using liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry-based profiling. Eighteen is

SUBMITTER: Xie Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10922478 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature