Significance of Toxic metal
Toxic metals, like lead and cadmium, pose a significant public health threat due to widespread environmental contamination. These naturally occurring elements can induce neurotoxicity and harm biological systems, often through oxidative stress. Compounds such as cadambine may offer protection against the adverse effects of these metals. The extensive use of toxic metals has led to their prevalence, requiring strategies to mitigate their harmful impact on human health.
Synonyms: Heavy metal
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The concept of Toxic metal in scientific sources
Toxic metals harm biological systems, causing oxidative stress. Lead, found in the Earth's crust, contaminates the environment, posing a public health risk. Cadmium induces neurotoxicity, potentially mitigated by compounds like cadambine.
From: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
(1) "Toxic metals" such as lead, arsenic, and cadmium were investigated in products containing Ginkgo biloba due to their potential health risks.[1] (2) Harmful elements to which the placenta has been identified as an indicator of fetal exposure, which can lead to severe fetal damage.[2] (3) These are harmful substances accumulated in soil, transferred to vegetables, and entering the human food chain.[3] (4) These can be found in higher levels in counterfeit cigarettes than legal cigarettes. This can exacerbate the problem of metal exposure.[4] (5) Moreover, those as As, Cd, Sb, Ni, Zn, and Al are also present in amounts above the required limits.[5]
From: Sustainability Journal (MDPI)
(1) They are metallic elements that can cause harm to living organisms, even at low concentrations, due to their chemical properties and potential to disrupt biological processes.[6] (2) These are metallic elements that can be harmful or lethal to living organisms, often found in high concentrations in acid mine drainage.[7] (3) Are elements like arsenic, cadmium, copper, chromium, lead, and zinc that, in high concentrations, pose a global problem of soil, water, and sediment contamination.[8] (4) Refers to a metal that can cause harm to living organisms, even at low concentrations, posing serious health risks.[9] (5) These metals are released as fumes into the atmosphere due to failures, causing concentrations of zinc, lead, and cadmium in the soil samples.[10]
From: International Journal of Pharmacology
(1) These metals, when in excess of an organism's binding capacity, can cause diseases, including cancer.[11] (2) These metals can cause harm to biological systems, often through mechanisms involving oxidative stress.[12] (3) Toxic metals, such as cadmium, can cause neurotoxicity, and compounds like cadambine can offer protection against their harmful effects.[13]
From: Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics
(1) Kondagogu gum was explored for its potential to decontaminate these, such as Pb 2+ and Cd 2+.[14] (2) These are main toxigenic compounds, that have the highest adverse health effect and the complexing ability of pectins is used with these.[15]
From: African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine
(1) Lead is a naturally occurring one of these found in the Earth's crust whose widespread use has resulted in extensive environmental contamination, thus making it a public health threat.[16]