The results of our tests were even more troubling in some ways than our findings for juice. In virtually every product tested, we found measurable amounts of total arsenic in its two forms. We found significant levels of inorganic arsenic, which is a carcinogen, in almost every product category, along with organic arsenic, which is less toxic but still of concern. Moreover, the foods we checked...

[This corrects the article on p. 7 in vol. 6, PMID: 21461292.].

A newly discovered bacterium, Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum, precipitates arsenic trisulfide (As(inf2)S(inf3)). Precipitation of As(inf2)S(inf3) by this organism results from its reduction of As(V) to As(III) and S(VI) to S(-II). At the As(III) concentration range of interest (0.1 to 1 mM), the stability of As(inf2)S(inf3) is highly sensitive to pH and [S(-II)]. Thus, the relative rates at whi...

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found widely in the environment. However, on recent days the level of arsenic in the environment has increased several folds due to its use as pesticide, defoliant, electronics, thermal power plants, wood preservatives and metal industry. Arsenic has been reported as one of the most alarming chemical in the environment [1], present in different forms and...

Arsenic is generally considered hypertoxic. However, it has been used in traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, to treat serious illnesses. Recently, a single dose of arsenic trioxide (As2O3) has been found especially effective in treating acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Generally speaking, As2O3 is a more effective treatment of APL than other, newer medications and has less seve...

The median survival of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is 12 months, and the majority of treatment options are palliative. MDA-7 (interleukin-24), when expressed via a recombinant replication defective adenovirus, Ad.mda-7, has profound antiproliferative and cytotoxic effects in a wide variety of tumor cells but not in nontransformed cells. The studies in this study examined the impact of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide (ATO) in regulation of trabeculectomy in an animal model. METHODS This study was designed as random, comparative, and prospective study. Primary Tenon's capsule fibroblasts (TFs) were cultured and their viability after arsenic trioxide (ATO) treatment was detected using 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl-2-)-2, 5-diph...