[HTML][HTML] Toxic mechanisms of five heavy metals: mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic

M Balali-Mood, K Naseri, Z Tahergorabi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The industrial activities of the last century have caused massive increases in human
exposure to heavy metals. Mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic have been the …

[HTML][HTML] Oral chromium exposure and toxicity

H Sun, J Brocato, M Costa - Current environmental health reports, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] is a known carcinogen when inhaled. However,
inhalational exposure to Cr (VI) affects only a small portion of the population, mainly by …

Review on recent advances in metal ions sensing using different fluorescent probes

S Chowdhury, B Rooj, A Dutta, U Mandal - Journal of fluorescence, 2018 - Springer
Fluorescence probes serves as unique detection methods for its simplicity and low detection
limit (LOD) and especially bioimaging ability. Research on the probes has already sprouted …

Causes of genome instability: the effect of low dose chemical exposures in modern society

SAS Langie, G Koppen, D Desaulniers… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Genome instability is a prerequisite for the development of cancer. It occurs when genome
maintenance systems fail to safeguard the genome's integrity, whether as a consequence of …

Oxidative stress and metal carcinogenesis

JC Lee, YO Son, P Pratheeshkumar, X Shi - Free radical biology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Occupational and environmental exposures to metals are closely associated with an
increased risk of various cancers. Although carcinogenesis caused by metals has been …

Emerging perspective: role of increased ROS and redox imbalance in skin carcinogenesis

D Xian, R Lai, J Song, X Xiong… - Oxidative medicine and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Strategies to battle malignant tumors have always been a dynamic research endeavour.
Although various vehicles (eg, chemotherapeutic therapy, radiotherapy, surgical resection …

In search of key: Protecting human health and the ecosystem from water pollution in China

B Chen, M Wang, M Duan, X Ma, J Hong, F Xie… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Systematic and scientific assessment of the key factors that lead to health and ecosystem
burdens caused by combined water pollutants at a macro level remains lacking. This study …

Dose-response for assessing the cancer risk of inorganic arsenic in drinking water: the scientific basis for use of a threshold approach

JS Tsuji, ET Chang, PR Gentry, HJ Clewell… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The biologic effects of inorganic arsenic predominantly involve reaction of the trivalent forms
with sulfhydryl groups in critical proteins in target cells, potentially leading to various …

Reactive oxygen species and targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer

L Zhang, J Li, L Zong, X Chen, K Chen… - Oxidative medicine …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer‐related death in the United States.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generally increased in pancreatic cancer cells …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling induces the aging of mesenchymal stem cells through promoting the ROS production

D Zhang, Y Pan, C Zhang, B Yan, S Yu, D Wu… - Molecular and cellular …, 2013 - Springer
Recent studies have demonstrated that the Wnt/β-catenin signaling plays an important role
in stem cell aging. However, the mechanisms of cell senescence induced by Wnt/β-catenin …