Background The interaction between microorganisms and heavy metals has been occurring since the beginning of life on the planet, 4 billion years ago, which allowed the biological evolution of resistance in systems and the survival of these microorganisms in environments containing high metals concentrations of metals [1]. Recently, a bioremediation review presented by Perpetuo et.al. [2] consid...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals contribute to pollutants in aquaculture facilities and thus need to be further investigated. Besides, there is little information regarding PAHs and heavy metals in the tissues of cultured fish, and the risks associated to consumption. In this review, emphasis has been made on the detection of PAHs and heavy metals in cultured fish specie...

Optimum concentrations of heavy metals like copper, cadmium, lead, chromium, and zinc in soil are essential in carrying out various cellular activities in minimum concentrations and hence help in sustaining all life forms, although higher concentration of these metals is lethal to most of the life forms. Galerina vittiformis, a macrofungus, was found to accumulate these heavy metals into its fl...

Many of mushrooms species from the forest area of Bucegi Mountains are consumed by the native population without thinking about the heavy metals uptake in the human body. From all the edible species we choose eight mushrooms, part of them considered edible and part with uncertain edibility. Heavy metals concentration in the fruiting body of mushrooms are different from one species to another an...

Transition metal carbides (TMCs) and transition metal nitrides (TMNs) have attracted attention as promising electrocatalysts that could replace noble metals of high price and limited supply. Relative to parent metals, TMC and TMN behave like noble metals for electrochemical reactions such as oxidation of hydrogen, CO and alcohols, and reduction of oxygen. When TMC and TMN are combined with othe...

The Moravian-Silesian Region is one of the most polluted sites by dust particles in the Czech Republic. Therefore, atmospheric concentrations of heavy metals as cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, antimony, thallium, manganese, iron and zinc, were monitored at 10 localities in the region during summer of 2014. Heavy metals were monitored in 10 particle size classes from 18.3 nm to ...

Seasonal variations of three heavy metals (Pb,Cd, Ni) in Pinctada radiata have been conducted in Hendorabi and lavan Island from March 2011 to march 2013, edible oysters are best pollution indicator organism in aquatic environment. The soft tissue of Pinctada radiata and sediment was analyzed to detect some potentially toxic metals as Pb, Cd, Ni with a flame AAS and statistical analyses were pe...

In preparation of chemical studies with superheavy elements around Z = 114, the adsorption behavior of these elements and their lighter homologs on different metals has been predicted based on (semi-)empirical models and extrapolations (see e.g. [1, 2]). Adsorption studies with SHE homologs were performed on various metals, especially metals of group 10 and 11 (see e.g. [3]). The experimental r...

Lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic are the most important heavy metals which may cause health risks following consumption of contaminated foods. Table salt is one the mostly used food additive with unique place in food consumption. Although purified table salt is expected to have lower level of contamination, some Iranians still prefer to use rock salt. Use of rock salt for food purposes has be...

For bacterial pathogens whose sole environmental reservoir is the human host, the acquisition of essential nutrients, particularly transition metals, is a critical aspect of survival due to tight sequestration and limitation strategies deployed to curtail pathogen outgrowth. As such, these bacteria have developed diverse, specialized acquisition mechanisms to obtain these metals from the niches...