It is of burgeoning importance that the human body burden of aluminium is understood and is measured. There are surprisingly few data to describe human excretion of systemic aluminium and almost no reliable data which relate to aluminium in sweat. We have measured the aluminium content of sweat in 20 healthy volunteers following mild exercise. The concentration of aluminium ranged from 329 to 5...

In the last century mercury levels in the global environment have tripled as a result of increased pollution from industrial, occupational, medicinal and domestic uses [1]. Glutathione is known to be the main agent responsible for the excretion of mercury (we refer to [41], [38] and [35]). It has also been shown that mercury inhibits glutathione synthetase (an enzyme acting in the synthesizatio...

Historically, plutonium still may be considered a material of very recent vintage, having been discovered only 24 years ago by Seaborg, McMillan, Kennedy, and Wahl [1]. Within a few months 239 after discovery, the fissionable properties of the Pu isotope were established by the same group using an amount of material (0.5 Bg) equal to what is now considered to be approximately one maximum permis...