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No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s [PDF]
Author's accepted manuscriptThis is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced version of an article accepted 28.04.2023 following peer review for publication in Environment and History, Fast Track.
Doro, Elijah
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Charting the landscape of the environmental exposome
We describe the biological and chemical components of the environmental exposomes in three major environmental matrices that are highly relevant to human and social‐economical health—air, soil, and water. We discuss how different exposome components can interact with each other. Finally, we propose a list of outstanding challenges to be tackled to push
Xin Wei+6 more
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p53 Mutation Possibility and Food Dietary Containing Heavy Metals [PDF]
Background: Several types of cancer have mutations in the tumor suppressor gene p53. Environmental mutagens such as heavy metals play an undeniable role in p53 mutations and leave the mutational fingerprint on the TP53 gene.
Nasser Pouladi+3 more
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Tropical surface gold mining: A review of ecological impacts and restoration strategies
Abstract Surface gold mining severely degrades landscapes, causing deforestation, soil erosion and displacement, and toxic contamination. The prevalence of both large‐scale and artisanal, small‐scale surface gold mining in the tropics has risen over recent decades.
Shrabya Timsina+6 more
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Medicines legislation and regulation in the United Kingdom 1500‐2020
The initial purposes of regulation of medicines in England, and latterly in the United Kingdom, were principally to raise government revenue, to discourage murder by poisoning and to regulate the activities of pharmacists. It was only much later that regulators sought to ensure that medicines were of good quality, reasonably safe, and at least somewhat
Robin E. Ferner, Jeffrey K. Aronson
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Internal organ damage in arsenic hydrogen intoxication
Arsenic hydrogen is a colorless gas. It enters the body through the respiratory system, without irritating the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract. It is a poison with a primary hemolytic effect.
V.S. Tkachyshyn
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Homicidal acute arsenic poisoning: A report of two cases
Arsenic has been considered as an ideal homicidal poison from centuries back till date and placed in the top list of lethal poisons used with criminal purpose.
Raj Kumar MG, Srinivasa Reddy P
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AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana+6 more
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This study aims to explore whether selenium (Se) concentration correlates with arseniasis in a high-arsenic coal area in the southern Shaanxi Province, China. Herein, an epidemiological investigation was conducted among 100 arsenic (As)-poisoned patients
Ai-Mei Bai+7 more
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Epigenetic Changes in Individuals with Arsenicosis [PDF]
Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is an environmental toxicant currently poisoning millions of people worldwide, and chronically exposed individuals are susceptible to arsenicosis or arsenic poisoning.
Bailey, Kathryn A.+10 more
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