Abstract:Recipient Business Office and phone number: DOE Contract Administrator: Heavy metal toxicity poses major environmental and health problems, and heavy metals are more difficult to remediate than chemical contaminants, which can be degraded by microorganisms. Cadmium and arsenic, for example, are non-essential heavy metals which are toxic to living cells at very low concentrations. Cd 2+ ions displace Ca 2+ or Zn 2+ in proteins and can cause oxidative stress, while arsenic also causes oxidative stress damage and… Show more
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