Heavy metal: a misused term?

The misused impact factor.

RESEARCH PAPERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE PUBLISHED IN THOUSANDS OF SCIENCE journals every year. The quality of these papers clearly has to be evaluated, not only to determine their accuracy and contribution to fields of research, but also to help make informed decisions about rewarding scientists with funding and appointments to research positions. One measure often used to determine the qua...

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 ...