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Author : Werner F. Beckert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium in Biological Tissue written by Werner F. Beckert and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium in Biological Tissue - the Need Foradequate Standard Reference Materials written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289216641
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium in Biological Tissue written by U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Author : Werner F. Beckert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium in Biological Tissue written by Werner F. Beckert and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elsa M. B. Sorensen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849342684
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Metal Poisoning in Fish written by Elsa M. B. Sorensen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-05-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metal Poisoning in Fish provides a comprehensive look at many aspects of metal poisoning of euryhaline and stenohaline fish. Metals and metalloids are considered individually and collectively and include arsenic, lead, selenium, copper, cadmium, mercury, and zinc. This informative, readable volume is designed to help regulatory personnel, enforcement personnel, and scientists understand the impact of these elements on fish. Topics covered include mechanisms of action, toxicity, biological effects, accumulation, tissue distribution, concentration factors, maximum acceptable toxicant concentrations, application factors, biological half-lives, uptake kinetics, depuration kinetics, elemental speciation, and detoxification mechanisms. The book emphasizes the use of data gathered from a variety of sources to pinpoint specific elemental agents as causal factors in the morbidity and mortality of fish.
Author : Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100088709X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Lead, Mercury and Cadmium in the Aquatic Environment written by Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an integrated and holistic discussion on cadmium, lead and mercury toxicity in aquatic environments, expanding general concepts on chemical speciation effects and exploring specific environmental toxicological issues, exposure routes, and bioanalytical approaches for their determination and assessments on their intracellular deleterious effects. It contains worldwide and regional aspects on cadmium, lead and mercury occurrence, fate, and toxicity, addressing key environmental exposure and health risk concerns to both humans and aquatic organisms. Our book is of interest to anyone conducting research in the broad fields of oceanography, geochemistry, ecotoxicology, and environmental and public health.
Author : Thomas C. Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Lead, Mercury, Cadmium and Arsenic in the Environment written by Thomas C. Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1987-05-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented by noted researchers consider the occurrence, flux, compartmentalization, and residence times of four elements recognized as significant environmental pollutants. Examines data available on these pollutants and pinpoints areas in which further research is needed. The presence of these elements in all ecological environments--oceans, freshwater systems, soils, the atmosphere, etc.--and their regional occurrence around the globe are examined in detail, as are their sources and effects on plants, animals, and humans. Particular attention is paid to lead, which is the most prevalent pollutant and poses the greatest risk to human health, especially the health of children.
Author : Thomas W. Clarkson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461309611
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Biological Monitoring of Toxic Metals written by Thomas W. Clarkson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is the result of a conference on "Biological Monitoring of Metals" held in Rochester, June 2-6, 1986, organized jointly by the Environmental Health Sciences Center of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester, NY, and the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals within the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) at the Karolinska Institute and the National (Swedish) Institute of Environmental Medicine and the University of Umea, Sweden. The aim of the Conference was to define and evaluate the scientific basis for the biological monitoring of metals. The conference was co-sponsored by the World Health Organization through its International Program on Chemical Safety and received substantial encouragement and support from the Swedish Work Environmental Fund and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This was the second conference organized jointly by the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals and The Toxicology Division of the University of Rochester. The previous joint conference was held in 1982 on the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of Metals. In addition, conferences have been organized by each group (see Appendices A and B). Several of these conferences are specially relevant to the topic of the current conference. These include the joint conference mentioned above and the conferences on dose-effect and dose-response relationship held in Tokyo in 1974 and on accumulation of metals held in Buenos Aires in 1972.
Author : J.O. Nriagu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642693148
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health written by J.O. Nriagu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of metal interactions with subcellular biochemical systems usually either are metabolites of the system affected (porphyrinurias) or represent some specific function of a cellular system being impaired (proteinurias). One typically finds a continuum of symptoms, from the subtle or so-called "no effect" bio chemical and physiological indicators of exposure to severe clinical disease and death. This continuum is the basis of much of the controversy since many health officials follow the traditional practice of applying the "threshold health-effect" concept in evaluating the problems of environmental exposure to metals. The past decade or so, however, has seen a vast increase in our understanding of the effects of elevated concentrations of toxic metals in local populations and ecosystems. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the effects of the metals which occur naturally in the environment must be distinguished from those imposed by the pollutant fraction. This point was amply document ed in a recent study of cadmium intake and cadmium in a number of human tissues in Sweden, Japan, and the United States, which showed fairly conclu sively that the background exposure in Japan was about threefold higher than in the other two countries (2). One immediate implication is that any health ef fect studies of cadmium in Japan using control groups within that country are liable to underestimate the difference between the exposed and the control groups simply because of the the high "background" intake.
Author : Bibudhendra Sarkar
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0824744756
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Heavy Metals In The Environment written by Bibudhendra Sarkar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents contemporary analytical techniques for the determination of heavy metals in air particles, water, soil and biological samples. It details experimental studies to reduce the occurance of disease, remediate contaminated sites and establish acceptable range of oral intakes (AROI) guidelines.
Author : Jean-Pierre Vernet
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Impact of Heavy Metals on the Environment written by Jean-Pierre Vernet and published by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighted in this compilation of papers is the role and importance of heavy metals in the environment. It provides up-to-date information in a field of active research and progress, where the focus is on effects and interactions between the environment and organisms, as well as contaminant dynamics. Several papers address the impact of heavy metals on our health. The influence of metals on plants is described in an exhaustive study on lichens, which have been widely used as biomonitors for environmental contamination by heavy metals. Metals are also accumulated by animals, as seen in a chapter which focusses on sediment/benthic organism interactions and biomonitoring in fish. Soil interactions are discussed, as well as regional studies of freshwater sediments and the marine environment. The final part of the book addresses a crucial problem: the management of stabilized municipal waste sludges. As a result, the most important and significant recent trends are included, emphasizing interactions with and impacts of heavy metals on humans, animals, plants and soils.
Author : Debasis Bagchi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429795734
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Metal Toxicology Handbook written by Debasis Bagchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy metals and metalloids, singly or in combination, induce toxic manifestations either through acute or chronic pathology. In particular, long-term chronic exposure to diverse heavy metals and metalloids to humans and animals can lead to numerous physical, muscular, neurological, nephrological, and diverse degenerative diseases and dysfunctions, including multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, cardiovascular disorders, and several others. Recognized heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, thallium, and hexavalent chromium are known for enormous toxicity. The immediate vital signs of acute heavy metal exposure include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and acute abdominal pain. Mercury has been identified as the most toxic heavy metal, and mercury poisoning is known as acrodynia or pink disease. Similarly, lead, another toxic heavy metal, was at one time an integral part of painting. Metal Toxicology Handbook further explains and discusses the varying attributes of metals, discussing toxicity, safety, and proper human utilization of metals. Beginning with a broad overview of metals, metalloids, redox biology, and neurodegeneration and going further into the roles, benefits, and toxicity of metals with each section, the text contains 28 chapters from eminent researchers and scientists in their respective fields and is a must-have for anyone researching the potential toxicity in metals. Key Features Discusses the pathology of metal toxicity Highlights the benefits of metals Explains the mechanism and salient features of restoring metabolic homeostasis Highlights dose-dependent beneficial and adverse effects of vanadium safety and toxicity The initial introductory section provides a broad overview of metals, metalloids, redox biology, and neurodegeneration. The second section discusses the pathology of metal toxicity in two chapters, while the third section highlights the mechanism and salient features of restoring metabolic homeostasis in two chapters. The fourth section demonstrates the aspect of radionuclides toxicity. In a change of pace, the fifth section discusses the benefits of metals in four chapters. The sixth section, titled "Toxic Manifestations by Diverse Heavy Metals and Metalloids," provides fourteen chapters that discuss the toxicological mechanism and manifestation of individual metals. The editors have crafted a commentary titled "A Treatise on Metal Toxicity" and summarized a vivid scenario of metal toxicity and its consequences.
Author : Helmut Sigel
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824775407
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Metal Ions in Biological Systems written by Helmut Sigel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986-02-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metal Ions in Biological Systems is devoted to increasing our understanding of the relationship between the chemistry of metals and life processes. The volumes reflect the interdisciplinary nature of bioinorganic chemistry and coordinate the efforts of researchers in the fields of biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, environmental chemistry, biophysics, pharmacy, and medicine. Volumes deal with such topics as the formation, stability, structure, and reactivity of biological compounds of low and high molecular weight containing metal ions; the metabolism and transport of metal ions and their complexes; and new models of complicated natural structures and processes. Volume 21 describes the underlying theories of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), promoting a wider use of NMR in studies of paramagnetic species. In six concise chapters by leading international authorities, Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Paramagnetic Species outlines the most recent developments regarding the use of nuclear relaxation as a source for structural information ... examines studies of magnetically coupled metalloproteins and metal-porphyrin induced dipolar shifts for conformational analysis ... and evaluates the potential of paramagnetic ions as agents for enhancing NMR image contrast. With over 500 references that facilitate further research, Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Paramagnetic Species is an essential resource for scientists and students in such disciplines as biophysics; bioinorganic, inorganic, and coordination chemistry; biochemistry; molecular biology; and enzymology. Book jacket.
Author : S. S. Berman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book ICES Seventh Round Intercalibration for Trace Metals in Biological Tissue, ICES 7/TM/BT (part 2) written by S. S. Berman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA-600/4 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nichole Coleman, PhD
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483469085
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Toxicology of Essential and Nonessential Metals written by Nichole Coleman, PhD and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how careful we are at using metals in industrial processes, some level of human exposure is unavoidable. Countless metals are obtained through mining and smelting activities that amplify their distribution throughout the environment. Applications of metals in industry, medicine, and agriculture have increased our exposure. These metals are not merely an occupational hazard for those working with them-they affect consumers and anyone exposed through environmental contamination. Even worse, they cannot be destroyed and are thus non-biodegradable. The blades we use, the pots and pans we cook with, children's face paint, and facial makeup contain toxic metals. Toxic heavy metals are also found in cigarettes, gourmet foods such as seasonings, fish, and chocolates. When you sprinkle a dish with Himalayan sea salt, you may end up ingesting toxic metals such as arsenic, cadmium and lead.
Author : U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Technical Information Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Biological Implications of Metals in the Environment. Mercury Lead Cadmium written by U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Technical Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
