edited by
Bibudhendra Sarkar
This reference presents the most current analytical techniques for the determination of heavy metals in air particles, water, soil, and biological samples—detailing the latest experimental studies to reduce the occurrence of disease, remediate contaminated sites, and establish acceptable range of oral intakes (AROI) guidelines.
Heavy Metals in the Environment:
- explores the direct and indirect effects of environmental exposure to metals and metallic compounds
- defines limits of safety for nutritionally essential metals
- examines the distribution, mobility, and biological availability of toxic elements in the environment
- provides techniques for direct metal speciation analyses
- discusses the occurrence of radionuclides in human tissues
- discusses the molecular mechanisms of metal carcinogenesis
- discusses the design of biosensors for heavy metal detection
This book is in-depth manual for toxicologists; biochemists; bioinorganic, inorganic, environmental, and medicinal chemists; immunologists; oncologists; physiologists; pharmacologists; geneticists; bacteriologists; molecular biologists; environmental scientists; and students in these disciplines.
Contents:
- Essentiality and Toxicity of Trace Metals
- Analytical Methods for Heavy Metals in the Environment: Quantitative Determination, Speciation, and Microscopic Analysis
- In Vitro Toxicological Assessment of Heavy Metals and Intracellular Mechanism of Toxicity
- Radionuclides in the Environment
- Metal Carcinogenesis
- Arsenic in the Environment: A Global Perspective
- Environmental Aspects of Arsenic Toxicity
- Cadmium
- Chromium and Cancer
- Aluminum
- Nickel
- Lead
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
- Microbial Resistance Mechanisms for Heavy Metals and Metalloids
- Genetic Susceptibility to Heavy Metals in the Environment
- Selenium in Nutrition and Toxicology
- Semiconductors
- Bacterial Metal-Responsive Elements and Their Use in Biosensors for Monitoring of Heavy Metals
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