Heavy metals known to be accumulated in plants adversely affect human health. This study aims to assess the effects of agrochemicals especially chemical fertilizers applied in paddy fields, which release potential toxic heavy metals into soil. Those heavy metals get accumulated in different parts of paddy plant (Oryza sativa L.) including the grains. Concentrations of nonessential toxic heavy m...

Bioaccumulation of any heavy metal above its maximum limits invariably results tothe detrimental health an organism. This present study was carried out to evaluatethe levels eight metals (Fe, Pb, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cr and Cd) in surface water,sediment bioaccumulation index (Chrysicthys walkeri) from Warri River, DeltaState, Nigeria. Samples were collected between the period July September,2015 two...

We have presented a detailed theoretical (density functional theory and ONIOM) study on the structure and M-PrP (prion protein) interaction on various prion models, M(PrP) systems (where PrP = HGG, HGGGW x 3H(2)O, and PrP(61-84), and M = Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, Mn). It was shown that the geometry of the complex [Mn(HGGGW)(H(2)O)] x 2H(2)O is quite different for M = Mn(III) and Mn(II), and partial u...

eight selected heavy metals (cu, zn, pb, cd, cr, mn, fe and al) in surface and sub-surfacesediments in the northern coast of sfax (tunisia) were studied in order to assess the sediment quality and tohighlight the anthropogenic contributions to heavy metal distributions in the two study sediment levels.multiple chemometric approaches based on geographic information system (gis), enrichment facto...

BACKGROUND Sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) is one of the precious spices. Almost all parts of fennel plant are edible. The herb is used as carminative, digestive, diuretic, cosmetic and medicine. METHODS A 0.5 g of the oven dried fennel fruit and soil samples were digested by wet-digestion method. The levels of selected elements (Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, Zn, Ni, Cd and Pb) were det...

Optimization of Cd (II), Zn (II) and Cu (II) biosorption from contaminated water were performed as function of parameters (pH, contact time, initial metal ions concentration and yeast dose). The experimental results showed that the highest equilibrium adsorption capacity at the optimum pH were 8.5 for Cd (II) and 6 for Zn (II) and 6 for Cu (II). Optimum pH values were carried out to evaluate ot...

4-Methoxy-N-((thiophen-2-yl)methyl)benzenamine was found to be a highly selective chemosensor for Ag(+) ion in methanol-water (1 : 1 v/v) mixture over other metal ions such as Na(+), K(+), Li(+), Cu(+), Ba(2+), Cd(2+), Co(2+), Cu(2+), Fe(2+), Hg(2+), Mn(2+), Ni(2+), Pb(2+) and Zn(2+) with a limit of detection (LOD) is 5.0 × 10(-6) mol L(-1). Upon binding to Ag(+) ion, a strong fluorescent enhan...

Metal complexes of 5-carboxy-2-thiouracil with Mn(ll), Co(ll), Ni(ll), Cu(ll), Zn(ll) and Cd(ll) ions were synthesized, characterized, and subjected to a screening system for evaluation of antitumour activity against Sarcoma-180 (S-180) tumour cells. The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, electronic spectra, room temperature magnetic measurements and powder X-ray diff...

During a period of 60 days assays were carried out with the moss Pohlia nutans transplanted from an uncontaminated control site to a dump consisting of a heavily polluted mine and smelter wastes located near wałbrzych in southwestern Poland. within the same period also samples of native P. nutans growing on the dump substrate were collected together with the same species from a control site. Co...

In the presented study, CuO-CoO-MnO/SiO2 nanocomposite was synthesis by Cu(II), Co(II), Mn(II), with 1:1:1 mole ratio and Tetraethyl orthosilicate. azo–azomethine 1-(3-imino-4-hydroxophenylazo-4-nitrobenzene)-4-methyl phenol (L) was synthesized and used as a ligand for capturing the metal ions. Also, 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide was applied as the i...