Heavy metal toxicity is a major public health concern. Exposure to such metals as cadmium, arsenic, lead etc. in human body causes deleterious effect. World Health Organization informed that the emission rate of cadmium is maximum in developing countries than in the developed part. Cadmium poisoning is reflected in the form of renal dysfunction, poor bone mineral density. It’s occurrence in nat...

Cadmium poisoning poses a serious health concern due to cadmium's increasing industrial use, yet there is currently no recommended treatment. The selective coordination of cadmium in a biological environment—i.e. in the presence of serum ions, small molecules, and proteins—is a difficult task. To address this challenge, a combinatorial library of peptoid-based ligands has been evaluated to iden...

Cadmium poisoning poses a serious health concern due to cadmium's increasing industrial use, yet there is currently no recommended treatment. The selective coordination of cadmium in a biological environment-i.e. in the presence of serum ions, small molecules, and proteins-is a difficult task. To address this challenge, a combinatorial library of peptoid-based ligands has been evaluated to iden...

BACKGROUND Given the increasing number of lead poisoning in opioids users and since no study has been conducted so far to review lead poisoning in methamphetamine (crystal) users, this study aimed to investigate blood lead level in methamphetamine addicts. METHODS This study was conducted on 20 patients with methamphetamine poisoning and their blood lead level was measured. The subjects were ...

the antimicrobial activity of some novel ascorbic acid-metal complexes [bisascorbate complexes of copper (ii), zinc(ii), manganese (11), iron (111), cobalt(ii), lead(ii) and cadmium(ii)] was investigated. four standard strains of bacterial species - staphylococcus aureus, escherichia coli, bacillus subtilis and klebsiella pneumonia and four fungal species - trichophyton sp. penicillium sp., asp...

Biomass is a possible renewable alternative to fossil carbon sources. Today, many bio-resources can be converted to direct substitutes or suitable alternatives to fossil-based fuels and chemicals. However, catalyst deactivation under the harsh, often liquid-phase reaction conditions required for biomass treatment is a major obstacle to developing processes that can compete with the petrochemica...

Background: Lead poisoning is an issue of concern in developing countries and high levels of lead in blood could be resulted following occupational and environmental exposures. Several reports have raised concerns on the increasing prevalence of lead intoxication among opioid addicts. This study investigated the clinical manifestations and demographic data of subjects who were ...

Mercury exposure is the second-most common cause of toxic metal poisoning. Public health concern over mercury exposure, due to contamination of fish with methylmercury and the elemental mercury content of dental amalgams, has long been a topic of political and medical debate. Although the toxicology of mercury is complex, there is evidence for antioxidant protection in the prevention of neurolo...

The history of the medicinal use of pectin goes back for several centuries. A printed recommendation for its use in the form of scraped apple appeared in an English book in 1775 as a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentry [Kertesz, 1951]. This is still its most important medicinal application and, combined with kaolin, it forms the basis of most antidiarrhoeal preparations. In recent times its range...

Interest in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) arises from its ability to combine with metal ions to form water-soluble chelates. Several important biological applications have been made of this property. The material has been shown to be effective (a) in mobilizing radioactive elements such as Pu, Am, and Y from the skeleton (1, 2), (b) as a valuable therapeutic agent in the treatment of p...