In Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling site near Shantou, Guangdong province, China, primitive ways of e-waste processing have caused severe cadmium and lead pollution to the local residents. However, the possible effects of cadmium or lead pollution to genomic integrity of the local residents have not been investigated. We examined the possible relationship between cadmium and lead concentrat...

AIM To determine cadmium content in the most frequently consumed foods of plant origin grown in different regions of Slovenia, assess cadmium content in the biological materials (blood and hair) from Slovenian young men, and verify the hypothesis that the cadmium pollution of the environment varies across regions in Slovenia. METHODS We analyzed cadmium concentration in 982 composite samples ...

The Itai-Itai disease case is one of four major pollution-related lawsuits occurring in Japan after World War H. This paper, which is based on investigations of the pollution source, the Kamioka mine, considers (1) the history of the disturbances to the environment caused by the Kamioka mine; (2) the Itai-Itai disease suit; (3) the pollution nprevention measures and methods of the Kamioka mine ...

Environmental pollution is a growing concern and, more importantly, pollution of the aquatic ecosystem is alarming. Bivalves are commonly used as bio-indicators of marine pollution. In the present study the Perna viridis was exposed to cadmium, copper, lead and zinc concentrations under longterm chronic toxicity for the estimation of biochemical biomarkers. Significant differences in TBARS leve...

Pot experiments were carried out during the two successive summer seasons of 2010 and 2011 in the greenhouse of Crops Physiology Research Department, Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt to investigate the effect of pollution with cadmium at concentrations of 50, 100 and 200 ppm on vegetative growth, leaf anatomy, yield and certain physiological aspects of s...

heavy metal pollutions of aquatic ecosystems have already raised many concerns on aquaticorganisms’health and survival especially on their sperm. the effects of a single metal on sperm may be totallydifferent from cocktail of several metals because of their interactions, so the effects of zinc, cadmium andcalcium on the trout and carp sperms and their competition have been examined by incubatio...

background: anthropogenic activities release high concentrations of heavy metals into the aquatic ecosystems, which can be absorbed by the aquatic organisms. in this study, the accu-mulation of cadmium (cd) and arsenic (as) was compared in liver, gill and muscle tissues of toothed carp (aphanius sophiae) in fresh and salt water. methods: a total of 175 fish samples were collected from the shoor...

Data of the current study show that intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of cadmium chloride (CdCl2) (5 mg/kg) into male albino rats was found to induce a deterioration in glucose tolerance 24 hr post-treatment, which was accompanied by a reduced elevation in serum insulin levels inresponse to the glucose challenge. CdCl2 produced a significant decrease in the liver content of both glutathione and ...

heavy metals such as cadmium mainly enter in the environment and ecosystem as a result of human activities. this study was conducted in order to evaluate the ability of bacterial inoculants to enhance efficiency of phytoextraction in a calcareous soil. three plants (amaranthus retroflexus, helianthus annus and medicago sativa), along with three levels of inoculants and four levels of cd were ev...