Zinc, copper, and iron were measured in the pleural fluid of 86 patients with benign conditions (including congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolus, collagen disease, pneumonitis, nonspecific pleuritis, and tuberculosis) and in 116 patients with malignant disease (including lymphoma, breast carcinoma, primary lung cancer, and metastatic lung cancer). Though a positive correlation was found b...

Background & Aims of the Study: Nowadays, the quality of water is a very important concern. High levels of heavy metals in drinking water may cause some health problems such as cancer. The aim of this study is determination of some heavy metal concentrations in groundwater of some parts of Qorveh county, Kurdistan, Iran. Materials & Methods: In this study 25 water samples...

Background: One of the most critical problems in the field of water and food pollution is the heavy metal pollution. Agricultural products are exposed to this type of contamination through wastewater; industrial activity and population pollutions are also in its area. Since the plant in the affected areas can directly enter heavy metals into the food chain, so, it is important to check their le...

There is minimal information about the effect of heavy metals such as lead and copper on pollen grains and pollen tubes of fruit trees. Fruit set of these plants are affected by different environmental, biological, physical and chemical factors. If one of these factors be abnormal, pollination, fertilization and fruit set and orchard yield will decrease. In polluted cities, this phenomenon is a...

considering the point that the existence of heavy metals in the wastewater are so dangerous forthe environment and it would have many bad consequences for all the creatures including human beings, wemust try out the ways that make us capable of adsorbing these heavy metals. in order to accomplish this goal we should use a method called adsorbing. in this study the adsorption of copper ions in h...

Background Release of toxic metals is one of most significant environmental problems since industrial revolution, mainly because heavy metals are not degraded and, therefore, remain in the environment. Some natural ecosystems may contain high heavy metals concentrations and, thus, it is not surprising that genes resistance to heavy metals are easily found in bacteria living in these environment...

aquatic organisms are one of most important human food sources but they can accumulate heavy metals entered aquatic ecosystems in their tissues and organs same time and can be transferred through the food chain to higher food levels and in the most top into the human body. shrimps are of the main groups of sea foods; and because they are benthic species, they can absorb high concentrations of h...

due to environmental problems caused by mining activities, it is necessary to study and investigation the concentrations of the pollutants caused by this activities such as heavy metals. the aim of this study is the determination of the concentration of heavy metals cu, pb and zn in roots of two species of artemisia including artemisia aucheri and artemisia sieberi in the surrounding natural la...

heavy metals are considered one of the most important environmental pollution and are dissolved form or adsorbed to the suspended solides in the urban storm runoffs and infiltratire ponds. in this article the heavy metals of urban storm runoff and sediments of infiltration pond in shiraz city have been investigated. the results show different pollutions in the urban storm runoffs such as dissol...