Heavy metals that are harmful to humans include arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead,
mercury, and nickel. Some metals or their related compounds may even cause cancer …

While scientific knowledge of the potential health significance of chemical exposures has
grown, experimental methods for predicting the carcinogenicity of environmental agents …

Carcinogenic metals, such as nickel, arsenic, and chromium, are widespread environmental
and occupational pollutants. Chronic exposure to these metals has been connected with …

Microarray technology is proving to be a useful tool to classify undefined environmental
toxicants, to investigate underlying mechanisms of toxicity, and to identify candidate toxicant …

Abstract The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD; http://ctdbase. org/) provides
information about interactions between chemicals and gene products, and their …

Exposure to toxic metals poses a serious human health hazard based on ubiquitous
environmental presence, the extent of exposure, and the toxicity and disease states …

Gene–environment interactions contribute to complex disease development. The
environmental contribution, in particular low-level and prevalent environmental exposures …

The last decade witnessed extraordinary advances in “omics” methods, particularly
transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, enabling toxicologists to integrate …

The development of in vitro molecular biomarkers to accurately predict toxicological effects
has become a priority to advance testing strategies for human health risk assessment. The …

Heavy metals are the most commonly encountered toxic substances that increase
susceptibility to various diseases after prolonged exposure. We have previously shown that …