[HTML][HTML] Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil: environmental pollutants affecting crop health

A Rashid, BJ Schutte, A Ulery, MK Deyholos, S Sanogo… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals and metalloids (HMs) are environmental pollutants, most notably cadmium,
lead, arsenic, mercury, and chromium. When HMs accumulate to toxic levels in agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals and human health: Possible exposure pathways and the competition for protein binding sites

D Witkowska, J Słowik, K Chilicka - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals enter the human body through the gastrointestinal tract, skin, or via inhalation.
Toxic metals have proven to be a major threat to human health, mostly because of their …

[HTML][HTML] Hesperidin and hesperetin against heavy metal toxicity: Insight on the molecular mechanism of mitigation

AC Famurewa, K Renu, MA Eladl… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Toxic heavy metals (THMs) are non-essential hazardous environmental pollutants with
intractable health challenges in humans and animals. Exposure to lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) …

Ferroptosis as a mechanism of non-ferrous metal toxicity

M Aschner, AV Skalny, AC Martins, AI Sinitskii… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
Ferroptosis is a recently discovered form of regulated cell death, implicated in multiple
pathologies. Given that the toxicity elicited by some metals is linked to alterations in iron …

A rapid and specific fluorescent probe based on aggregation-induced emission enhancement for mercury ion detection in living systems

Y An, B Li, Y Yu, Y Zhou, J Yi, L Li, Y Sun… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury is a harmful heavy metal that seriously threatens the environment and organisms. In
this study, we combined the aggregation-induced emission mechanism and the advantages …

Self-assembling fluorescent hydrogel for highly efficient water purification and photothermal conversion

M Li, M Yang, B Liu, H Guo, H Wang, X Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Employing fluorescent hydrogels for hazardous Hg (II) detection and removal is an efficient
method for water purification. However, it remains challenging to establish a fluorescent …

Engineering excitation-independent turn-on fluorescent probe for mercury: Functionalized dendritic silica doped with red-emissive carbon dots towards simultaneous …

S Yadav, N Choudhary, V Sonpal, AR Paital - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The simultaneous detection and remediation of highly toxic mercury-ion are urgently needed
for environmental benefits. However, most of the fluorescence probes for mercury-ion exhibit …

[HTML][HTML] A retrospection on mercury contamination, bioaccumulation, and toxicity in diverse environments: current insights and future prospects

V Kumar, M Umesh, MK Shanmugam, P Chakraborty… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Owing to various industrial applications of mercury (Hg), its release into the environment at
high concentration is becoming a great threat to living organisms on a global scale. Human …

Two-photon fluorescent probes for quantitative bio-imaging analysis in live tissues

V Juvekar, HW Lee, DJ Lee, HM Kim - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-photon (TP) microscopy (TPM) is an indispensable visualization tool for deep-
tissue imaging. TPM uses the low energy light of the near-infrared window as an excitation …

Smartphone-assisted dual-channel discriminative detection of Hg (II) and Cu (II) ions with a simple, unique, readily available probe

E Erdemir, G Suna, L Liv, S Eğlence-Bakır… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metal ions are well-known atmospheric and environmental pollutants and cause long-
term damage to humans. Mercury is one of the most toxic and hazardous one that induce …