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Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

Last updated July 15, 2026

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Papers

Cadmium Exposure: Mechanisms and Pathways of Toxicity and Implications for Human Health

Toxics|2024

190 cit.

Publication in Nanoscale Advances (2024) [143 citations, W4390887039]

Nanoscale Advances|2024

143 cit.

Publication in Marine Pollution Bulletin (2024) [107 citations, W4391908279]

Marine Pollution Bulletin|2024

107 cit.

Publication in Cell Metabolism (2024) [99 citations, W4401379925]

Cell Metabolism|2024

99 cit.

Publication in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (2024) [95 citations, W4392130883]

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology|2024

95 cit.

Heavy metal contamination and its impact on the food chain: exposure, bioaccumulation, and risk assessment

CyTA - Journal of Food|2025

83 cit.

Assessment of Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk indices of heavy metal exposure in different age groups using Monte Carlo Simulation Approach

Scientific Reports|2024

61 cit.

BMP suppresses Wnt signaling via the Bcl11b-regulated NuRD complex to maintain intestinal stem cells

The EMBO Journal|2024

8 cit.

Publication in Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2024) [8 citations, W4404844261]

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics|2024

8 cit.

Publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials (2025) [7 citations, W4414889316]

Journal of Hazardous Materials|2025

7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Papers

Heavy Metal Contamination in Agricultural Soil: Environmental Pollutants Affecting Crop Health

Agronomy|2023

592 cit.

Combined effect of arsenic and polystyrene-nanoplastics at environmentally relevant concentrations in mice liver: Activation of apoptosis, pyroptosis and excessive autophagy

Chemosphere|2022

85 cit.

Selenium ameliorates mercuric chloride-induced brain damage through activating BDNF/TrKB/PI3K/AKT and inhibiting NF-κB signaling pathways

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry|2022

67 cit.

Distribution, prevalence and health risk assessment of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater from lower Gangetic plain in West Bengal, India

Groundwater for Sustainable Development|2022

49 cit.

Sustainable water management in rice cultivation reduces arsenic contamination, increases productivity, microbial molecular response, and profitability

Journal of Hazardous Materials|2024

47 cit.

Curcumin attenuates AFB1-induced duck liver injury by inhibiting oxidative stress and lysosomal damage

Food and Chemical Toxicology|2022

44 cit.

Investigating spatial distribution of fluoride in groundwater with respect to hydro-geochemical characteristics and associated probabilistic health risk in Baruipur block of West Bengal, India

The Science of The Total Environment|2023

44 cit.

Curcumin alleviates AFB1-induced nephrotoxicity in ducks: regulating mitochondrial oxidative stress, ferritinophagy, and ferroptosis

Mycotoxin Research|2023

35 cit.

An extensive review of arsenic dynamics and its distribution in soil-aqueous-rice plant systems in south and Southeast Asia with bibliographic and meta-data analysis

Chemosphere|2024

35 cit.

Curcumin activates the Nrf2 Pathway to alleviate AFB1-induced immunosuppression in the spleen of ducklings

Toxicon|2022

34 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

Xinbin Feng

Institute of Geochemistry

Marie Vahter

Karolinska Institutet

Curtis D. Klaassen

University of Kansas Medical Center

Andrew A. Meharg

Queen's University Belfast

Yong‐Guan Zhu

Institute of Urban Environment

Richard D. Palmiter

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Unknown

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Robert J. Cousins

Unité de Nutrition Humaine

Papers

Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2013

2.4k cit.

Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater in Beijing, China

Environmental Pollution|2007

2.4k cit.

Dramatic growth of mice that develop from eggs microinjected with metallothionein–growth hormone fusion genes

Nature|1982

1.3k cit.

Arsenic Exposure and Toxicology: A Historical Perspective

Toxicological Sciences|2011

1.3k cit.

Arsenic uptake and metabolism in arsenic resistant and nonresistant plant species

New Phytologist|2002

1.2k cit.

Continental-scale pollution of estuaries with antibiotic resistance genes

Nature Microbiology|2017

1.2k cit.

NPY/AgRP Neurons Are Essential for Feeding in Adult Mice but Can Be Ablated in Neonates

Science|2005

1.1k cit.

Sensitivity to leptin and susceptibility to seizures of mice lacking neuropeptide Y

Nature|1996

1k cit.

Arsenic Contamination of Bangladesh Paddy Field Soils: Implications for Rice Contribution to Arsenic Consumption

Environmental Science & Technology|2002

1k cit.

Comparative toxicity of trivalent and pentavalent inorganic and methylated arsenicals in rat and human cells

Archives of Toxicology|2000

994 cit.

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