Phytoremediation is one of the most widely used methods for removing soil contaminants. In this research, the function of Vetiveria zizianoides to remove cadmium from four different treatments with varying amounts of cadmium chloride contamination (including 0, 20, 40, and 60 mg per liter) was investigated and physiological changes caused by the accumulation of this metal in the plant were moni...

Abstract The effect of short-term and long-term root treatment with melatonin on growth parameters, photochemical activity PSII, content basic photosynthetic pigments, lipid peroxidation, accumulation inorganic ions in barley plants under the action cadmium chloride was studied. It shown for first time that protective phytomelatonin during is manifested a decrease toxic pigments shoots roots pl...

Cadmium is a potent toxic heavy metal element which has apparently no constructive purpose in our body. Lung has been found to be a potential target of cadmium toxicity due to the presence of cadmium in cigarette smoke which puts both active as well as passive smokers at risk. In this report we studied the effect of cadmium on in vitro cultured human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cell line. Cells we...

background: protective effect of emblica against radiation and cadmium induced biochemical changes in mouse kidney has been studied. materials and methods: adult male mice were divided into seven groups: i (shamirradiated), ii (cadmium chloride), iii (irradiated with 2 gy gamma rays), iv (radiation and cadmium chloride), v (cadmium chloride and emblica), vi (radiation and emblica), vii (radiati...

In this study, the effect of vitamin C on cadmium-induced toxicity was investigated. Wister rats were exposed to cadmium (as CdSO4.8H2O), by sub-cutaneous injection, at doses of 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 μg/kg body weight, with or without vitamin C supplementation, for four weeks. Serum alkaline phosphatase activity of the group of rats not supplemented vitamin C (group III) significantly (p<0.05) incre...

Pollution of the aquatic environment by heavy metals has become a worldwide problem. Most heavy metals exhibit toxic waste on aquatic organisms. Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic metal which affects aquatic organisms acutely and chronically. Planktonic calanoid copepods are the secondary dominant producers of pelagic ecosystems and play a considerable role in the transfer of energy and organic mat...

The objective of the present work was to evaluate the effect of exogenously applied cadmium on the physiological response of green algae Chlorella vulgaris. The study investigated the long-term effect (18 days) of cadmium on the levels of algae biomass, assimilation pigment composition, soluble protein, oxidative status (production of hydrogen peroxide and superoxide anion), antioxidant enzymes...

The global transcriptional response of the chytridiomycete Blastocladiella emersonii to environmental stress conditions was explored by sequencing a large number of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from three distinct cDNA libraries, constructed with mRNA extracted from cells exposed to heat shock and different concentrations of cadmium chloride. A total of 6,350 high-quality EST sequences were o...