Environmental health risks :lead poisoning and arsenic exposure
New York
Nova Science Publishers
c2008
xi, 202 p.: ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index
]edited by[ Jack D. Gosselin and Ike M. Fancher
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Lead poisoning in the tropical developing countries / Viroj Wiwanitkit -- Plumbism and anemia / Viroj Wiwanitkit -- Arsenic exposure through food chain / Marta Lopez-Alonso and Marta Miranda -- Bioavailability and risk assessment of arsenic in homegrown vegetables / Emese Sipter and Gabriella Mathe-Gaspar -- An effect of climate change : increased health risks due to arsenic in drinking water : the case of Yzmir, Turkey / Sait C. Sofuoglu and Aysun Sofuoglu -- Arsenic toxicity to preimplantation stage embryo / Moussa M. Diawara and Dave Unis -- Effects of arsenic exposure on the immune system and mechanism of action / Libia Vega -- Cutaneous arsenicism in Latin America : a public health problem / Willy Ramos ... ]et al.[ -- 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.[