Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta et al.
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Badal Kumar Mondal et al.
Fifty districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal, India have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization's maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of 50 districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal are 118,849 km2 and 104.9 millio...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Yuan Cheng, Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Xianyao Chu et al.
Plants respond to environmental pollutants such as heavy metal(s) by triggering the expression of genes that encode proteins involved in stress response. Toxic metal ions profoundly affect the cellular protein homeostasis by interfering with the folding process and aggregation of nascent or non-nati...
J.V. Meenakshi, Nancy L. Johnson, Victor M. Manyong, Hugo De Groote et al.
Abdullah H Baqui, Robert E. Black, Shams El Arifeen, Mohammad Yunus et al.
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effect on morbidity and mortality of providing daily zinc for 14 days to children with diarrhoea. Design: Cluster randomised comparison. Setting: Matlab field site of International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Participants: 8070 children age...
Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Pam Factor‐Litvak et al.
Recently, epidemiologic studies of developmental neurotoxicology have been challenged to increase focus on co-exposure to multiple toxicants. Earlier reports, including our own work in Bangladesh, have demonstrated independent associations between neurobehavioral function and exposure to both arseni...
Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman, Lars Åke Persson et al.
BACKGROUND Iron and zinc deficiency are prevalent during infancy in low-income countries. OBJECTIVES The objectives were to examine whether a weekly supplement of iron, zinc, iron+zinc, or a micronutrient mix (MM) of 16 vitamins and minerals would alter infant development and behavior. DESIGN The pa...
Akbar Hossain, Milan Skalický, Marián Brestič, Sagar Maitra et al.
The trace element selenium (Se) is a crucial element for many living organisms, including soil microorganisms, plants and animals, including humans. Generally, in Nature Se is taken up in the living cells of microorganisms, plants, animals and humans in several inorganic forms such as selenate, sele...
J.M. Arellano, Völker Storch, Carmen Sarasquete
Senegales sole, Solea senegalensis, adult specimens were subjected to sublethal copper exposure (100 microg SO(4)Cu/L) for 7 days (contamination period) and afterward kept for 4 days without copper exposure (depuration period). In contaminated and detoxified specimens, the hepatocytes indicated a gr...
Mohamed El‐Boshy, Engy Risha, Fatma Abdelhamid, Mohammad S. Mubarak et al.
Cadmium is a non-essential toxic metal used in industrial process, causes severe risk to human health. Selenium (Se) is an essential trace mineral of fundamental importance for human health. Selenium has antioxidant enzymes roles and is needed for the proper function of the immune system. In this st...
W. Abdullah Brooks, Mathuram Santosham, Aliya Naheed, Doli Goswami et al.
Background Pneumonia and diarrhoea cause much morbidity and mortality in children younger than 5 years. Most deaths occur during infancy and in developing countries. Daily regimens of zinc have been reported to prevent acute lower respiratory tract infection and diarrhoea, and to reduce child mortal...
W. Abdullah Brooks, Mohammad Yunus, Mathuram Santosham, MA Wahed et al.
Background Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in young children. Early reversal of severity signs--chest indrawing, hypoxia, and tachypnoea--improves outcome. We postulated that zinc, an acute phase reactant, would shorten duration of severe pneumonia and time in hospital. Metho...
Maria Kippler, A.M. Waheedul Hoque, Rubhana Raqib, Helena Öhrvik et al.
Cadmium (Cd) is a widespread, highly toxic environmental pollutant known to accumulate in human placenta. The aim of the present study was to elucidate to what extent the accumulation of Cd in human placenta interacts with the transport of micronutrients to the fetus. Cd and micronutrients were meas...
Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Masayuki Fujita et al.
The present study investigated the phenotypical, physiological and biochemical changes of rice plants exposed to high selenium (Se) concentrations to gain an insight into Se-induced phytotoxicity. Results showed that exposure of rice plants to excessive Se resulted in growth retardation and biomass ...
Gareth J. Norton, Alex Douglas, Brett Lahner, Elena Yakubova et al.
The mineral concentrations in cereals are important for human health, especially for individuals who consume a cereal subsistence diet. A number of elements, such as zinc, are required within the diet, while some elements are toxic to humans, for example arsenic. In this study we carry out genome-wi...