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Heavy Metals and Human Health: Possible Exposure Pathways and the Competition for Protein Binding Sites
Heavy metals enter the human body through the gastrointestinal tract, skin, or via inhalation. Toxic metals have proven to be a major threat to human health, mostly because of their ability to cause membrane and DNA damage, and to perturb protein function and enzyme activity. These metals disturb na...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8511997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34641604 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26196060 |