Trace Elements - Human Health and Environment

Edited by Hosam M. Saleh and Eithar Karim El-Adham

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Abstract: Over the last few years, we have witnessed increasing efforts dedicated to the scientific investigation and characteristics of trace elements. Especially in the field of human and animal nutrition, trace elements display a considerably attractive issue for research because they play an essential role in the nutrition of both animals and humans. Aquatic environments contaminated with trace elements are an emerging research area due to the toxicity, abundance, and environmental persistence of trace elements. Accumulation of heavy metals as a class of trace elements in various environments, and the subsequent transition of these elements into the food and feed chain, severely affects human health. The determination of type and concentration of trace elements is regarded as the first and most important step to follow the mechanisms controlling the dispersal and accumulation of trace elements. Element speciation in different media (water, soil, food, plants, coal, biological matter, food, and fodder) is pivotal to assess an element's toxicity, bioavailability, environmental mobility, and biogeochemical performance. Recently, new analytical techniques have been developed, which greatly simplified the quantitation of many trace elements and considerably extended their detection range. In this context, the development of reproducible and accurate techniques for trace element analysis in different media using spectroscopic instrumentation is continuously updated.

JEL-codes: Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78923-670-5
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A Simple and Highly Structured Procaine Hydrochloride as Fluorescent Quenching Chemosensor for Trace Determination of Mercury Species in Water

M. S. El-Shahawi, D. A. Al-Eryani, W. Ahmad, Z.M. Saigl, H. Alwael, S.O. Bahaffi and Y.M. Moustafa

Biomonitoring of Trace Metals in the Coastal Waters Using Bivalve Molluscs

Periyadan K Krishnakumar, Mohammed Qurban and Geetha Sasikumar

Introductory Chapter: An Introduction to Trace Elements

Hosam M. Saleh

Minor and Trace Elements in Whole Blood, Tissues, Proteins and Immunoglobulins of Mammals

Georgy Nevinsky and Natalia Zaksas

Relation of Trace Elements on Dental Health

Mehmet S Dogan

Trace Elements in Hair: Relevance to Air Pollution

Jun-ichi Chikawa, Jeremy Salter, Hiroki Shima, Takaaki Tsuchida, Takashi Ueda, Kousaku Yamada and Shingo Yamamoto

Trace Elements in Suspended Particulate Matter and Sediments of the Cai River: Nha Trang Bay Estuarine System (South China Sea)

Sofia Koukina and Nikolay Lobus

Trace Elements in the Human Milk

M. De Rezende Pinto and Agostinho Almeida

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.72339

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