Heavy metals and pesticides toxicity in agricultural soil and plants: Ecological risks and human health implications

A Alengebawy, ST Abdelkhalek, SR Qureshi, MQ Wang - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental problems have always received immense attention from scientists. Toxicants
pollution is a critical environmental concern that has posed serious threats to human health …

Toxicity of heavy metals in plants and animals and their uptake by magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

AU Rehman, S Nazir, R Irshad, K Tahir… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metal exist naturally in environment, but due to human and some natural activities
they have been entered to water bodies, air and soil and have become one of the major …

Heavy metal induced stress on wheat: phytotoxicity and microbiological management

A Rizvi, A Zaidi, F Ameen, B Ahmed, MDF AlKahtani… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Among many soil problems, heavy metal accumulation is one of the major agronomic
challenges that has seriously threatened food safety. Due to these problems, soil …

The role of nanomaterials as effective adsorbents and their applications in wastewater treatment

H Sadegh, GAM Ali, VK Gupta, ASH Makhlouf… - Journal of Nanostructure …, 2017 - Springer
Nanomaterials have been extensively studied for heavy metal ions and dye removals from
wastewater. This article reviews the role of nanomaterials as effective adsorbents for …

Toxicity, mechanism and health effects of some heavy metals

M Jaishankar, T Tseten, N Anbalagan… - Interdisciplinary …, 2014 - sciendo.com
Heavy metal toxicity has proven to be a major threat and there are several health risks
associated with it. The toxic effects of these metals, even though they do not have any …

The blood-testis barrier and its implications for male contraception

CY Cheng, DD Mruk - Pharmacological reviews, 2012 - ASPET
The blood-testis barrier (BTB) is one of the tightest blood-tissue barriers in the mammalian
body. It divides the seminiferous epithelium into the basal and the apical (adluminal) …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of transition metal oxides and chalcogenides and their composites in water treatment: a review

EC Okpara, OC Olatunde, OB Wojuola… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
High population growth, industrialization, precipitous urban settlement, and poor
government policies in some circles have increased resource consumption and various …

Heavy metals and human health

S Morais, FG Costa, ML Pereira - Environmental health–emerging …, 2012 - books.google.com
Metals occur naturally in the earth's crust, and their contents in the environment can vary
between different regions resulting in spatial variations of background concentrations. The …

Study on the removal of heavy metal ions from industry waste by carbon nanotubes: effect of the surface modification: a review

VK Gupta, O Moradi, I Tyagi, S Agarwal… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Removal of noxious materials such as heavy metal ions (which are hazardous above certain
ppm concentration) from wastewater is one of the biggest environmental challenges that …

A review on detection of heavy metals from aqueous media using nanomaterial-based sensors

JA Buledi, S Amin, SI Haider, MI Bhanger… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The extensive release of heavy metals into the natural water bodies has become globally
prevalent from past few decades. Heavy metal toxicity is becoming a serious threat to human …