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Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health

Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health, Berlin 1983, March 20–25

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. J. O. Nriagu

    1. Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada

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Part of the book series: Dahlem Workshop Report (DAHLEM, volume 28)

Part of the book sub series: Life Sciences Research Report (DAHLEM LIFE)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • J. O. Nriagu
    Pages 1-6

  3. Historical Records of Metal Pollution in the Environment

    • I. Thornton, P. Abrahams
    Pages 7-25

  4. Anthropogenic Perturbation of Metal Fluxes into the Atmosphere

    • W. H. Zoller
    Pages 27-41

  5. Fluxes of Metals Through the Atmosphere and Oceans

    • P. E. Buat-Ménard
    Pages 43-69

  6. Metal Pollution Of Terrestrial Waters

    • U. Förstner
    Pages 71-94

  7. Pollution of Soils by Cadmium

    • T. Asami
    Pages 95-111

  8. The Contamination of Plants and Soils with Heavy Metals and the Transport of Metals in Terrestrial Food Chains

    • A. Kloke, D. R. Sauerbeck, H. Vetter
    Pages 113-141

  9. Transport of Trace Metals in Marine Food Chains

    • M. Bernhard, M. O. Andreae
    Pages 143-167

  10. Additional Exposure Routes

    • P. J. Landrigan, K. Bridbord
    Pages 169-186

  11. Bioavailability oF Trace Elements in Foodstuffs and Beverages

    • J. M. McKenzie
    Pages 187-198

  12. Bacterial Transformations of and Resistance to Heavy Metals

    • S. Silver
    Pages 199-223

  13. New Approaches to Study Effects of Metals and Their Compounds in Vitro and in Vivo

    • A. J. M. Schoot Uiterkamp
    Pages 225-236

  14. Biochemical Interactions of Mercury, Cadmium, and Lead

    • J. H. R. Kägi, H.-J. Hapke
    Pages 237-250

  15. Structural Aspects of Metal Toxicity

    • R. J. P. Williams
    Pages 251-263

  16. Metabolism and Toxicity of Metals

    • C.-G. Elinder
    Pages 265-274

  17. Cadmium

    • K. Nogawa
    Pages 275-284

  18. Mercury

    • T. W. Clarkson, R. Hamada, L. Amin-Zaki
    Pages 285-309

  19. The Hazard to Health of Lead Exposure at Low Dose

    • H. L. Needleman
    Pages 311-322

  20. Standard Setting and Metal Speciation: Arsenic

    • R. L. Zielhuis, A. A. E. Wibowo
    Pages 323-344
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of metal interactions with subcellular biochemical systems usually either are metabolites of the system affected (porphyrinurias) or represent some specific function of a cellular system being impaired (proteinurias). One typically finds a continuum of symptoms, from the subtle or so-called "no effect" bio­ chemical and physiological indicators of exposure to severe clinical disease and death. This continuum is the basis of much of the controversy since many health officials follow the traditional practice of applying the "threshold­ health-effect" concept in evaluating the problems of environmental exposure to metals. The past decade or so, however, has seen a vast increase in our understanding of the effects of elevated concentrations of toxic metals in local populations and ecosystems. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the effects of the metals which occur naturally in the environment must be distinguished from those imposed by the pollutant fraction. This point was amply document­ ed in a recent study of cadmium intake and cadmium in a number of human tissues in Sweden, Japan, and the United States, which showed fairly conclu­ sively that the background exposure in Japan was about threefold higher than in the other two countries (2). One immediate implication is that any health ef­ fect studies of cadmium in Japan using control groups within that country are liable to underestimate the difference between the exposed and the control groups simply because of the the high "background" intake.

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  • Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada

    J. O. Nriagu

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