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Biomarkers of Exposure: A Case Study with Inorganic Arsenic

The environmental contaminant inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a human toxicant and carcinogen. Most mammals metabolize iAs by reducing it to trivalency, followed by oxidative methylation to pentavalency. iAs and its methylated metabolites are primarily excreted in urine within 4–5 days by most species an...

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Autor principal: Hughes, Michael F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1665401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17107869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9058