Nearly half of the world's urban population depends on aquifers for drinking water. These are increasingly vulnerable to pollution and overexploitation. Besides anthropogenic sources, pollutants such as arsenic (As) are also geogenic and their concentrations have, in some cases, been increased by groundwater pumping. Almost 40 % of Mexico's populat...
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
The North Bohemian Brown Coal Basin (Czech Republic) is suggested as a source of significant pollution in the surrounding environment with various pollutants, including risk elements. A total of 53 sampling points were selected within the North Bohemian region. The selected sampling points represented either the basin areas (affected by the coal mi...
Published in CNS & neurological disorders drug targets
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that long-term arsenic exposure leads to various types of pathological complications, especially cognitive dysfunction. The present study was designed to assess the neuroprotective potential of edaravone (a potent free radical scavenger) against arsenic-induced neurotoxicity in Wistar rats. Adult male Wist...
Published in International journal of phytoremediation
Arsenic (As) contamination in water, soil, and crops is creating a difficult situation for the large population across the globe. Various efforts are being made to reduce As levels in rice as it is a staple crop. This review presents recent biotechnological advances toward the development of low As accumulating rice. The review shall be an importan...
Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Arsenic is removed from arsenic-bearing copper dust by vulcanizing reduction. Vulcanizing reduction conditions and kinetics of arsenic volatilization are studied. Different temperatures, sulfur additions and vulcanizing reduction times are studied to obtain the conditions of separating arsenic from arsenic-bearing copper dust. Arsenic was selective...
Published in Water research
There is a critical need to use decentralized and/or point-of-use systems to address some challenging water quality issues in society. Sorption-based approaches are uniquely suitable for such applications because of their simplicity in operation; however, the sorbents must possess fast contaminant uptake kinetics to overcome short hydraulic contact...
Published in Biological trace element research
Arsenic is an abundant element in the earth's crust. In the environment and within the human body, this toxic element can be found in both organic and inorganic forms. Chronic exposure to arsenic can predispose humans to cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, stroke, atherosclerosis, and blackfoot disease. Oxidative damage induced by react...
Published in International journal of phytoremediation
In this study, foliar applications of Br and Se at the grain filling and tillering stage demonstrate their effect on As and Cd accumulation. The findings showed that Br and Se resulted in the Se concentration in grains reaching the Se-enriched level, and the accumulation of As and Cd was the lowest. Furthermore, the application of Br and Se decreas...
Published in Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Microorganisms can mediate antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) transformation and thus change their mobility and toxicity. Having similar geochemical behavior, Sb and As are generally considered to exert similar environmental pressure on microbiome. However, it needs further validation, especially for protists. In this study, the responses of protistan ...
Published in The Science of the total environment
High arsenic (As) in groundwater is an environmental issue of global concern, which is closely related to microbe-mediated As biogeochemical cycling. However, the distribution of genes related to As cycling and underlying microbial As biogeochemical processes in high As groundwater remain elusive. Hence, we profiled the As cycling genes (arsC, arrA...
