Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities: a worldwide epidemic with social, occupational and environmental determinants

C Jayasumana, C Orantes, R Herrera… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Increase in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is observed in Central America,
Sri Lanka and other tropical countries. It is named chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural …

A dual role of vanadium in environmental systems—Beneficial and detrimental effects on terrestrial plants and humans

E Hanus-Fajerska, A Wiszniewska, I Kamińska - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The importance of vanadium (V) in the functioning of land systems is extremely diverse, as
this element may exert both positive and harmful effects on terrestrial organisms. It recently …

Microbial community responses to vanadium distributions in mining geological environments and bioremediation assessment

B Zhang, S Wang, M Diao, J Fu, M Xie… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vanadium mining activities can cause contamination of the surrounding geological
environment. Vanadium may exist in multiple matrices due to its migration and …

Spatial distribution of vanadium and microbial community responses in surface soil of Panzhihua mining and smelting area, China

X Cao, M Diao, B Zhang, H Liu, S Wang, M Yang - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Spatial distribution of vanadium in surface soils from different processing stages of
vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite in Panzhihua mining and smelting area (China) as well …

Medicinal applications of vanadium complexes with Schiff bases

K Hashmi, S Gupta, A Siddique, T Khan… - Journal of Trace Elements …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many transition metal complexes have been explored for their therapeutic properties after
the discovery of cisplatin. Schiff bases have an efficient complexation tendency with the …

Genome-resolved metagenomic insight into vanadate and ammonium elimination in sulfur-based autotrophic biosystem

W Yan, S Chen, M Li, S Liu, B Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The extensive use of ammonium (NH 4+) as a precipitant in non-ferrous metallurgy, such as
vanadium production, leads to the co-occurrence of toxic heavy metals and NH 4+-N in the …

Fluoride in drinking water and diet: the causative factor of chronic kidney diseases in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka

RW Dharmaratne - Environmental health and preventive medicine, 2015 - Springer
A significant number of people in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka suffer from chronic
kidney diseases (CKD), and the author revisits existing literature related to CKD to find its …

Powering a vanadium redox flow battery using spent vanadium catalyst: Extraction of direct-use V (IV)/V (III) vanadium precursors

N Beriwal, L Sharma, A Verma - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is an emerging energy storage system for large scale
renewable energy storage. However, due to limited stock of primary sources of vanadium …

Geochemical sources of vanadium in soils: Evidences in a southern Italy area

I Guagliardi, D Cicchella, R De Rosa, N Ricca… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Identifying differences of vanadium concentrations in soils is essential to individuate
pollution sources and potential risks to humans and the environment. Marked differences in …

Human health risk of vanadium in farmland soils near various vanadium ore mining areas and bioremediation assessment

L Hao, B Zhang, C Feng, Z Zhang, Z Lei, K Shimizu - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Various kinds of vanadium (V) ore mining areas produced serious contamination have been
widely recognized, while less relevant research was about the associated health risk and V …