Environmental health risks
Subtitle: lead poisoning and arsenic exposure
By: [edited by] Jack D. Gosselin and Ike M. Fancher.
Contributors: Gosselin, Jack D.; Fancher, Ike M.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781607417811
Subjects: Lead poisoning; Lead -- Environmental aspects; Arsenic -- Toxicology; Arsenic -- Environmental aspects; Lead Poisoning; Arsenic -- adverse effects; Arsenic Poisoning; Environmental Exposure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lead poisoning in the tropical developing countries / Viroj Wiwanitkit; title: Plumbism and anemia / Viroj Wiwanitkit; title: Arsenic exposure through food chain / Marta López-Alonso and Marta Miranda; title: Bioavailability and risk assessment of arsenic in homegrown vegetables / Emese Sipter and Gabriella Máthé-Gáspár; title: An effect of climate change : increased health risks due to arsenic in drinking water : the case of Ýzmir, Turkey / Sait C. Sofuoglu and Aysun Sofuoglu; title: Arsenic toxicity to preimplantation stage embryo / Moussa M. Diawara and Dave Unis; title: Effects of arsenic exposure on the immune system and mechanism of action / Libia Vega; title: Cutaneous arsenicism in Latin America : a public health problem / Willy Ramos ... [et al.]; title: Origin of gas in the phreatic aquifer of Bahia Blanca district : a conceptual model for management of arsenotoxicity risk at the SW Pampean region of Argentina / Blanco, M. del C. ... [et al.].