Münir Öztürk, Mert Metin, Volkan Altay, Rouf Ahmad Bhat et al.
Arsenic is a well-known element because of its toxicity. Humans as well as plants and animals are negatively affected by its exposure. Some countries suffer from high levels of arsenic in their tap water and soils, which is considered a primary arsenic-linked risk factor for living beings. Humans ge...
Xiaonan Wang, Daoyong Zhang, Xiangliang Pan, Duu‐Jong Lee et al.
Selenium (Se) nanoparticles are often synthesized by anaerobes. However, anaerobic bacteria cannot be directly applied for bioremediation of contaminated top soil which is generally aerobic. In this study, a selenite-reducing bacterium, Citrobacter freundii Y9, demonstrated high selenite reducing po...
Md Bayejid Hosen, Md. Rakibul Islam, Firoza Begum, Yearul Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Sperm DNA damage is an important factor in the etiology of male infertility. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the association of oxidative stress induced sperm DNA damage with the pathogenesis of male infertility. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study comprised a total of 66 su...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Ali Raza, Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak et al.
Selenium (Se) is a widely distributed trace element with dual (beneficial or toxic) effects for humans, animals, and plants. The availability of Se in the soil is reliant on the structure of the parental material and the procedures succeeding to soil formation. Anthropogenic activities affect the co...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Mahabub Alam, Masayuki Fujita
We investigated the protective role of selenium (Se) in minimizing high temperature-induced damages to rapeseed (Brassica napus L. cv. BINA Sarisha 3) seedlings. Ten-day-old seedlings which had been supplemented with Se (25 μM Na2SeO4) or not were grown separately under control temperature (25 °C) o...
Jing Ge, Kai Guo, Cong Zhang, Milton Talukder et al.
Cadmium (Cd) has been confirmed as an environmental contaminant, which potential threats health impacts to humans and animals. Selenium (Se) as a beneficial element that alleviates the negative effects of Cd toxicity. Se mainly exists in two forms in food nutrients including organic Se usually as (S...
Cong Zhang, Jing Ge, Mei‐Wei Lv, Qi Zhang et al.
Cadmium (Cd), a heavy metal contaminant, exists in humans and animals throughout life and closely associate with severe hepatotoxicity. Selenium (Se) has been recognized as an effective chemo-protectant of Cd, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. The objective of the present study is to ill...
Deepshikha Mishra, Ashish Mehta, S.J.S. Flora
Arsenicosis, due to contaminated drinking water in the Indo-Bangladesh region, is a serious health hazard in terms of morbidity and mortality. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated due to arsenic toxicity have been attributed as one of the initial signals that impart cellular toxicity, which is co...
Debojyoti Moulick, Arkabanee Mukherjee, Anupam Das, Anirban Roy et al.
Agricultural productivity is constantly being forced to maintain yield stability to feed the enormously growing world population. However, shrinking arable and nutrient-deprived soil and abiotic and biotic stressor (s) in different magnitudes put additional challenges to achieving global food securi...
Zahoor Ahmad, Shazia Anjum, Milan Skalický, Ejaz Ahmad Waraich et al.
Drought poses a serious threat to oilseed crops by lowering yield and crop failures under prolonged spells. A multi-year field investigation was conducted to enhance the drought tolerance in four genotypes of Camelina and canola by selenium (Se) application. The principal aim of the research was to ...
Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Md. Mezanur Rahman, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Masayuki Fujita et al.
We investigated the mechanistic consequences of selenium (Se)-toxicity, and its possible mitigation using salicylic acid (SA) in rice. In comparison with control, sodium selenate-exposed 'Se1' (0.5 mM) and 'Se2' (1.0 mM) plants showed accumulation of Se by 190.63 and 288.00 % in roots, 2359.42 and 2...
Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak, Sławomir Dresler, Katarzyna Rubinowska, Renata Matraszek et al.
We examined the possibility to enhance the growth and the physiological tolerance of lamb's lettuce (Valerianella locusta L.) grown under heat stress (HS) by biofortification with selenium (Se). The plants were grown at optimal (22/19 °C; day/night) or high (35/22 °C; day/night) temperature and Se w...
Mohammad Zahangeer Alam, Rebecca J. McGee, Md. Anamul Hoque, Golam Jalal Ahammed et al.
Environmental perturbations alter biochemical compounds in food crops. Arsenic (As), a toxic metalloid, is known to affect the cultivation of food crops in many regions of the world; however, the changes in chlorophyll, catalase and proline in response to As stress and the role of stress relief subs...
Helena Skröder, Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Lars Åke Persson et al.
Background & aims Selenium deficiency has been shown to affect the neurological development in animals, but human research in this area is scarce. We aimed to assess the impact of selenium status during pregnancy on child development at 1.5 years of age. Methods This prospective cohort study was nes...
J. Richard Pilsner, Megan N. Hall, Xinhua Liu, Habibul Ahsan et al.
BACKGROUND: Global hypomethylation of DNA is thought to constitute an early event in some cancers and occurs in response to arsenic (As) exposure and/or selenium (Se) deficiency in both in vitro and animal models. In addition, antagonism between As and Se, whereby each reduces toxicity of the other,...