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The chronic toxicity of aluminium, cadmium, mercury, and lead in birds: a review.
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It is concluded that significant physiological and biochemical responses to such exposure conditions occur at dietary metal concentrations insufficient to cause signs of overt toxicity, particularly important are reproductive effects which include decreased egg production, decreased hatchability, and increased hatchling mortality.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 1987-01-01. It has received 795 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chronic toxicity & Toxicity.read more
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Global Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury: A Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied uncertainty in the global biogeochemical cycle of mercury, including oxidation processes in the atmosphere, land atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere cycling.
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Effects of Environmental Methylmercury on the Health of Wild Birds, Mammals, and Fish
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of methylmercury exposure on wild piscivorous fish, birds, and mammals were investigated. But, the authors focused on the common loon, and only limited field-based studies corroborated laboratory-based results.
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Mercury in the Swedish environment — Recent research on causes, consequences and corrective methods
Oliver Lindqvist,Kjell Johansson,Lage Bringmark,Birgitta Timm,Mats Aastrup,Arne Andersson,Gunnar Hovsenius,Lars Håkanson,Åke Iverfeldt,Markus Meili +9 more
TL;DR: In the last decade, a new pattern of Hg pollution has been discerned, mostly in Scandinavia and North America, mostly due to more widespread air pollution and long-range transport of pollutants.
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Effects of mercury on wildlife: A comprehensive review
TL;DR: A critique of the current state of knowledge about effects of Hg on wildlife is presented as an aid to identifying missing information and to planning research needed for conducting a complete assessment of HG risks to wildlife.
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Birds as monitors of pollutants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that birds may reflect pollutant hazards to humans better than do most invertebrates, since they are high in food chains and have more complex physiology.
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Cadmium in the environment
TL;DR: In this paper, a review on cadmium in the environment has been performed under a contract between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
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Deficits in Psychologic and Classroom Performance of Children with Elevated Dentine Lead Levels
Herbert L. Needleman,Charles Gunnoe,Alan Leviton,Robert M. Reed,Henry Peresie,Cornelius Maher,Peter V. D. Barrett +6 more
TL;DR: Lead exposure, at doses below those producing symptoms severe enough to be diagnosed clinically, appears to be associated with neuropsychologic deficits that may interfere with classroom performance.
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Aberrant expression of HLA-DR antigens on bileduct epithelium in primary biliary cirrhosis: relevance to pathogenesis.
TL;DR: The increased HLA-A,B,C, expression may be a means of amplifying T-cell cytotoxic responses in PBC and enables these cells to present "self antigens" to sensitised T-lymphocytes and to promote autorecognition.
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Metallothioneins and their role in the metabolism and toxicity of metals
TL;DR: The metallothioneins may also have an important role in regulating the normal absorption and homeostasis of zinc and copper as discussed by the authors, however, it is paradoxical, in that a protein synthesized within the cell to reduce toxicity, may, in itself, be toxic when excreted or leaked out from a cell to the extracellular space.
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Increased dietary cadmium absorption in mice and human subjects with iron deficiency
Peter R. Flanagan,Jenny S. McLellan,James V. Haist,M. George Cherian,M J Chamberlain,L. S. Valberg +5 more
TL;DR: The intestinal adaptive response to iron deficiency in both experimental animals and human subjects leads to the increased absorption of cadmium, a potentially toxic element.