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Seung-Hun Lee, Jinwook Chung and Yong-Woo Lee
Antimony and arsenic, which have a high carcinogenicity, should be removed depending on their ionic charge in water. Therefore, we attempted to confirm the adsorption characteristics of antimony and arsenic considering ionic charge to improve removal eff...
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Yiwen Jiao, Yitian Liu, Wei Wang, Yujiao Li, Wentong Chang, Ao Zhou and Ronglong Mu
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a major anthropogenic source of heavy metal discharge worldwide. However, little research has been carried out on the development of AMD in abandoned pyrite mines and the heavy metal contamination of mine surface water. The ai...
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Michele Menghini, Roberta Pedrazzani, Donatella Feretti, Giovanna Mazzoleni, Nathalie Steimberg, Chiara Urani, Ilaria Zerbini and Giorgio Bertanza
The assessment of the environmental footprint of an organization or product is based on methods published by the European Union Joint Research Centre, which take 16 impact areas into account. Among the listed categories are human and freshwater ecosystem...
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Giancarlo Bozzo, Nicola Pugliese, Rossella Samarelli, Antonella Schiavone, Michela Maria Dimuccio, Elena Circella, Elisabetta Bonerba, Edmondo Ceci and Antonio Camarda
Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungal species that usually contaminate foods and feeds. Their lipophilic properties allow them to persist in the fat tissues of animals that ingest them, representing a risk for the consumers becaus...
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Marjan Salari, Vahid Rahmanian, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Wei-Hung Chiang, Chin Wei Lai, Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi and Ahmad Gholami
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) distributed in air and soil are harmful because of their carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and teratogenicity. Biodegradation is an environmentally friendly and economical approach to control these types of contaminan...
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Maria Carmela Dichicco, Salvatore Laurita, Rosa Sinisi, Raimondo Battiloro and Giovanna Rizzo
Worldwide studies have been done about the toxicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos minerals occurring in ophiolitic rocks. Inhalation of asbestos due to environmental exposure could cause malignant mesothelioma and lung cancers. In particular, the ophio...
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Demetrios Petrakis, Loukia Vassilopoulou, Charalampos Mamoulakis, Christos Psycharakis, Aliki Anifantaki, Stavros Sifakis, Anca Oana Docea, John Tsiaoussis, Antonios Makrigiannakis and Aristides M. Tsatsakis
The review aims to comprehensively present the impact of exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDs) in relation to the clinical manifestation of obesity and related diseases, including diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, carcinoge...
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Yue Wang, Hong Gao, Xiao-Lin Na, Shu-Ying Dong, Hong-Wei Dong, Jia Yu, Li Jia and Yong-Hui Wu
The toxicity and carcinogenicity of aniline in humans and animals have been well documented. However, the molecular mechanism involved in aniline-induced liver toxicity and carcinogenesis remains unclear. In our research, primary cultured hepatocytes wer...
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Jun-Jie Yin, Qingsu Xia, Shu-Hui Cherng, I-Wah Tang, Peter P. Fu, Ge Lin, Hongtao Yu and Diógenes Herreño Sáenz
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread genotoxic environmental pollutants and potentially pose a health risk to humans. Although the biological and toxicological activities, including metabolism, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity, of PAHs...
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Falicia L. Edwards and Paul B. Tchounwou
Methyl parathion - MP (C8H10NO5PS) is a restricted-use pesticide that has been widely used as an agricultural insecticide. It belongs to the class of organophosphate chemicals characterized by their ability to inhibit acetylcholinesterase activity. The m...
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