Arsenic and human health effects: A review

KSM Abdul, SS Jayasinghe, EPS Chandana… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) is ubiquitous in nature and humans being exposed to arsenic via atmospheric
air, ground water and food sources are certain. Major sources of arsenic contamination …

The broad scope of health effects from chronic arsenic exposure: update on a worldwide public health problem

MF Naujokas, B Anderson, H Ahsan… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Concerns for arsenic exposure are not limited to toxic waste sites and massive
poisoning events. Chronic exposure continues to be a major public health problem …

Arsenic exposure and toxicology: a historical perspective

MF Hughes, BD Beck, Y Chen, AS Lewis… - Toxicological …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The metalloid arsenic is a natural environmental contaminant to which humans are routinely
exposed in food, water, air, and soil. Arsenic has a long history of use as a homicidal agent …

Clonal relatedness and mutational differences between upper tract and bladder urothelial carcinoma

F Audenet, S Isharwal, EK Cha, MTA Donoghue… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate genomic differences between urothelial carcinomas of the upper
tract (UTUC) and bladder (UCB), with a focus on defining the clonal relatedness of …

A review on arsenic carcinogenesis: epidemiology, metabolism, genotoxicity and epigenetic changes

Q Zhou, S ** - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Long-term exposure to arsenic (inorganic arsenic) is a world-wide environmental health
concern. Arsenic is classified as the Group 1 human carcinogen by the International Agency …

Human health effects from chronic arsenic poisoning–a review

S Kapaj, H Peterson, K Liber… - … Science and Health …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The ill effects of human exposure to arsenic (As) have recently been reevaluated by
government agencies around the world. This has lead to a lowering of As guidelines in …

Arsenic in drinking water

National Research Council, Life Studies… - 1999 - books.google.com
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been considering a more stringent
regulation of arsenic in water. A significant reduction in the maximum contaminant level …

A review of high arsenic groundwater in Mainland and Taiwan, China: distribution, characteristics and geochemical processes

H Guo, D Wen, Z Liu, Y Jia, Q Guo - Applied Geochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
China is a typical high-As region, where 20 provinces have high As groundwaters among 34
provinces. These groundwaters usually occur in both arid–semiarid inland basins and river …

Elemental and chemically specific X-ray fluorescence imaging of biological systems

MJ Pushie, IJ Pickering, M Korbas, MJ Hackett… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
From the perspective of a chemist, biology confers a rich variety of roles on a number of
metal ions. It is widely agreed that a large fraction of the genomic output of living things …

Natural arsenic in global groundwaters: distribution and geochemical triggers for mobilization

I Herath, M Vithanage, J Bundschuh, JP Maity… - Current Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
The elevated concentration of arsenic (As) in the groundwaters of many countries worldwide
has received much attention during recent decades. This article presents an overview of the …