Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Arsenic Intake and Urine As Biomarker of Exposure in Two Endemic Arsenic Areas in Chile: Phytoremediation As a Strategy for the Recovery of Contaminated Soils (pp. 1-20)
Oscar P. Díaz, Nelson Núñez, Yasna M. Tapia, Rafael Arcos, Rubén Pastene, Dinoraz Vélez and Rosa Montoro (Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and others)
Chapter 2 – Malignant Transformation Models in Vitro for the Study of Arsenic Carcinogenesis (pp. 21-46)
Ning Ma and Shiwen Huang (Faculty of Health Science, Suzuka University of Medical Science, Suzuka, Mie, Japan, and others)
Chapter 3 – Analytical Detection of Arsenic Species in Environmental and Biological Materials (pp. 47-66)
Akira Namera and Akito Takeuchi (Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, and others)
Chapter 4 – Inorganic Arsenic in Foodstuffs: Health Effects and Analytical Methods for Its Determination (pp. 67-90)
I. N. Pasias, A. K. Psoma, N. I. Rousis and N. S. Thomaidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 5 – Arsenic Exposure Inhibits Poly (ADP)-Ribosylation of Nuclear Proteins in PC-12 Cells and Rat Brain (pp. 91-116)
Fátima Ceballos, Juan Manuel Delgado, Claudia G. Castillo, Othir Galicia-Cruz and María E. Jiménez-Capdeville (Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Mexico, and others)
Chapter 6 – Distribution and Abundance of Arsenic in the Soils and Plants (pp. 117-130)
Ismail M. M. Rahman, Zinnat A. Begum, S. Y. Salehi-Lisar, Rouhollah Motafakkerazad, M. Rabiul Awual and Hiroshi Hasegawa (Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh, and others)
Index