background: the aim of this study was to determine bioavailability heavy metal concentrations of cu, cd, cr, co and zn and health risk assessment in different types of klang district, selangor (malaysia) urban surface soil using in physiologically based extraction test in vitro human digestion model. methods: a total of 76 urban surface soil was sampled based on seven different types of land us...

metal pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems resulting from human activity. phytoremediation utilizes plants to uptake contaminants and can potentially be used to remediate metal-contaminated sites. the present study investigates heavy metal uptake (cd, cr, and ni) from soil by different organs of populus alba and morus alba. for this purpose, cd (40, 80, and 160 mg...

plant-based remediation (i.e. phytoremediation) is one of the most significant eco-sustainable techniques to cope with devastating consequences of pollutants. in the present study, the potential of a wetland macrophyt (i.e. potamogeton crispus ) for the phytoremediation of heavy metals (i.e. cu, cr, pb, as and cd) in the anzali wetland was evaluated. the results showed that p. crispus tends to ...

background: given the importance of vegetables in the food pyramid, their safety is very important from view point of public health. vegetable contamination by heavy metals can lead to bioaccumulation of these toxic and disease-causing elements in the body of consumers. therefore, in this study, the concentration of some heavy metals, including lead (pb), cadmium (cd), zinc (zn) and copper (cu)...

background and aims: nowadays heavy metals are the environmental priority pollutants and are becoming as the most serious environmental problems. in recent years removing those from diverse industrial effluents and metal cleaning have been studied. the aim of the present study was to investigate the different methods for cooper removal of cooper ions from industrial wastewater. methods: this st...

Heavy metal and organochlorine (OC) concentrations, including organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (PCBs), were determined in arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryi) from three sites in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska in 1991– 93. Heavy metals were present in most squirrel livers collected, with concentrations of trace elements (As, Cd, Hg, Ni, and Pb) aver...

Increased levels of transition metals like Fe, Ni, Cr, Hg and Pb are related to free radical generation, lipid peroxidation, DNA strand breaks and tumor growth in cellular systems. In order to evaluate the correlation to malignant growth in humans we investigated the accumulation of heavy metals in 8 healthy and 20 breast cancer biopsies by means of a standardized AAS methodology. A highly sign...

We examined changes in profiles of isoflavonoids in roots of lupine (Lupinus luteus L. cv. Juno) seedlings in response to treatment with two heavy metals: cadmium (at 10 mg/l) and lead (at 150 mg/l). Overall, 21 flavonoid conjugates were identified in root extracts, some of them with up to six positional isomers. The total amount of all isoflavonoids increased by about 15 % in cadmium-treated p...

The present study was designed to evaluate the heavy metal absorbing potential of bacteria isolated from industry effluent sites of river Nagavali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh. From the effluent waste water three bacteria were isolated and confirmed as Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus after performing various biochemical tests. The heavy metal ...