Heavy metal

Heavy Metal Toxicity

In general, irritable health concern related to heavy metal (accumulation) might be mainly divided into 2 types, i.e. heavy metal poisoning caused by excessive extrinsic exposure and genetic disorders such as Wilson disease (as reviewed by Osredkar et al. in this issue). As for the former type, unlike the latter one, it can be said that the health damage spread with the development of the civil...

Heavy metal suicide.

Andreas Linkermann, Brent Stockwell and Tom Vanden Berghe 10 11 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the 12 Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 13 2 Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA 14 3 VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium. 15 Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology...

Heavy Metal Tolerance

Heavy Metal Toxicity

Heavy metals are metallic elements which have a high atomic weight and a density much greater (at least 5 times) than water. There are more than 20 heavy metals, but four are of particular concern to human health: lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and inorganic arsenic (As). According to the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. These four heavy metals are four of the top ...

Microbes in heavy metal remediation.

Heavy metal contamination due to natural and anthropogenic sources is a global environmental concern. Release of heavy metal without proper treatment poses a significant threat to public health because of its persistence, biomagnification and accumulation in food chain. Non-biodegradability and sludge production are the two major constraints of metal treatment. Microbial metal bioremediation is...