Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic
Balali-Mood M, Naseri K, Tahergorabi Z, Khazdair MR, Sadeghi M
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- 2021
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- Frontiers in Pharmacology
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Synthesizes the carcinogenic and neurotoxic mechanisms of mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic, emphasizing how each metal generates ROS and triggers oxidative-stress-dependent dysbiosis. WikiBiome depends on this comprehensive toxicology to connect multi-metal environmental exposures to the cross-condition dysbiotic signatures observed in neurodegenerative, metabolic, and cancer-associated signatures.
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