Kale Kponee

TL;DR: The results are the first from a community relying on drinking water with such extremely high concentrations of benzene and other hydrocarbons, and highlight the need for more refined investigation as recommended by UNEP.

TL;DR: RUT abrogates Mn - induced striatal and hippocampal toxicity via inhibition of Fe depletion, oxidative stress, inflammation and suppressing the NF-κB signaling pathways, and indicates that RUT may be of use as a neuroprotective agent against Mn- induced neuronal toxicity.

TL;DR: This study compared toenails concentrations of manganese and lead measured with XRF against ICP-MS, in samples collected from 20 adults in Nigeria, and developed a novel calibration method that corrects XRF measurements for toenail weight and thickness to reduce the variability inXRF measurements of toenailed clippings.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the health symptoms reported by participants may be poor proxies for the underlying disease processes associated with adverse health outcomes due to VOC exposure in this community and that the burden of adverse health effects may stem from the contaminated groundwater system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) as a marker to indicate exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and biomass burning smoke (BBS) in households.