The relative impact of toxic heavy metals (THMs)(arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr)(VI), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb)) on the total environment: an overview

Z Rahman, VP Singh - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019 - Springer
Certain five heavy metals viz. arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr)(VI), mercury (Hg),
and lead (Pb) are non-threshold toxins and can exert toxic effects at very low concentrations …

Effects of environmental methylmercury on the health of wild birds, mammals, and fish

AM Scheuhammer, MW Meyer… - AMBIO: a Journal of the …, 2007 - BioOne
Wild piscivorous fish, mammals, and birds may be at risk for elevated dietary methylmercury
intake and toxicity. In controlled feeding studies, the consumption of diets that contained Hg …

Mercury in cetaceans: exposure, bioaccumulation and toxicity

JL Kershaw, AJ Hall - Science of The Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The fate and transportation of mercury in the marine environment are driven by a
combination of anthropogenic atmospheric and aquatic sources, as well as natural …

Toxic elements in food: occurrence, binding, and reduction approaches

P Hajeb, JJ Sloth, SH Shakibazadeh… - … Reviews in Food …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic elements such as mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead, sometimes called heavy
metals, can diminish mental and central nervous system function; elicit damage to blood …

Detoxification mechanism of heavy metals in marine mammals and seabirds: interaction of selenium with mercury, silver, copper, zinc, and cadmium in liver

T Ikemoto, T Kunito, H Tanaka, N Baba… - Archives of …, 2004 - Springer
Subcellular distribution of mercury, selenium, silver, copper, zinc, and cadmium was
determined in the liver of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), black-footed albatrosses …

Trophic relationships in an Arctic food web and implications for trace metal transfer

LA Dehn, EH Follmann, DL Thomas… - Science of the Total …, 2006 - Elsevier
Tissues of subsistence-harvested Arctic mammals were analyzed for silver (Ag), cadmium
(Cd), and total mercury (THg). Muscle (or total body homogenates of potential fish and …

Methodologies for assessing exposure to metals: speciation, bioavailability of metals, and ecological host factors

D Peakall, J Burger - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2003 - Elsevier
Host factors play a role in the bioavailability of metals, making it critical to understand their
nature and how to measure them, as well as how to measure bioavailability with respect to …

[HTML][HTML] Current understanding of the ecological risk of mercury from subsea oil and gas infrastructure to marine ecosystems

F Kho, DJ Koppel, R von Hellfeld, A Hastings… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many oil and gas fields are nearing production cessation and will require decommissioning,
with the preferred method being complete infrastructure removal in most jurisdictions …

Exposure to heavy metals and infectious disease mortality in harbour porpoises from England and Wales

PM Bennett, PD Jepson, RJ Law, BR Jones… - Environmental …, 2001 - Elsevier
We investigate whether long-term exposure to heavy metals, including immunosuppressive
metals like mercury (Hg), is associated with infectious disease in a wild cetacean. Post …

An assessment of the toxicological significance of anthropogenic contaminants in Canadian arctic wildlife

AT Fisk, CA De Wit, M Wayland, ZZ Kuzyk… - Science of the Total …, 2005 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic contaminants have been a concern in the Canadian arctic for over 30 years
due to relatively high concentrations of bioaccumulating and biomagnifying organochlorine …