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Subhash Chandra Mukherjee
Researcher at Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata
Publications - 28
Citations - 3071
Subhash Chandra Mukherjee is an academic researcher from Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. The author has contributed to research in topics: Arsenic contamination of groundwater & Population. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2798 citations. Previous affiliations of Subhash Chandra Mukherjee include Jadavpur University.
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Arsenic Groundwater Contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India: A Future Danger?
Dipankar Chakraborti,Subhash Chandra Mukherjee,Shyamapada Pati,Mrinal Kumar Sengupta,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Dilip Lodh,C. R. Chanda,Anil K Chakraborti,Gautam Kumar Basu +9 more
TL;DR: On neurologic examination, arsenic-typical neuropathy was diagnosed in 63% of the adults, a prevalence previously seen only in severe, subacute exposures, and an apparent increase in fetal loss and premature delivery in the women with the highest concentrations of arsenic in their drinking water.
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Arsenic calamity in the Indian subcontinent: What lessons have been learned?
Dipankar Chakraborti,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Kunal Paul,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Mrinal Kumar Sengupta,Dilip Lodh,C. R. Chanda,Kshitish Chandra Saha,Subhash Chandra Mukherjee +8 more
TL;DR: Groundwater arsenic (As) contamination in West Bengal (WB, India) was first reported in December 1983, when 63 people from three villages of two districts were identified by health officials as suffering from As toxicity, and after years of research, additional affected villages are being identified on virtually every new survey.
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Chronic Arsenic Toxicity in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India—A Review and Commentary
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Subhash Chandra Mukherjee,Badal Kumar Mondal,Kunal Paul,Dilip Lodh,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,C. R. Chanda,Gautam Kumar Basu,Kshitish Chandra Saha,Shibtosh Roy,Ranajit Das,Shyamal Kanti Palit,Quazi Quamruzzaman,Dipankar Chakraborti +14 more
TL;DR: Limited trials of 4 arsenic chelators in the treatment of chronic arsenic toxicity in West Bengal over the last 2 decades do not provide any clinical, biochemical, or histopathological benefit except for the accompanying preliminary report of clinical benefit with dimercaptopropanesulfonate therapy.
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Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain.
Dipankar Chakraborti,Mrinal Kumar Sengupta,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Sad Ahamed,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Mohammad Anwar Hossain,Subhash Chandra Mukherjee,Shymapada Pati,Kshitish Chandra Saha,Rathindra Nath Dutta,Quazi Quamruzzaman +10 more
TL;DR: This book aims to provide a history of dermatology in Bangladesh and some of the techniques used in the field have been described as new and innovative.
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Neuropathy in Arsenic Toxicity from Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in West Bengal, India
Subhash Chandra Mukherjee,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Mrinal Kumar Sengupta,Dilip Lodh,C. R. Chanda,Kshitish Chandra Saha,Dipankar Chakraborti +7 more
TL;DR: Prognosis was favorable in mild and early diagnosed cases of neuropathy whereas most of the other more severe and late diagnosed cases showed slow and partial recovery or even deterioration.