Browsing by Subject "Toxicity"
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Bioaccumulation and physiological responses to lead (Pb) in Chenopodium murale L
(Academic Press, 2018)Identification and screening of wild, wasteland plants for the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils is a crucial phytotechnological approach. In a pot experiment, Chenopodium murale was tested for the phytoextraction ... -
Estimation of heavy metals in human blood samples- To evaluate immunotoxic correlation with health risk in local population of Malwa region of Punjab
(Central University of Punjab, 2018)Elements play a significant role in the human body for growth, development, and metabolism. But there are certain heavy metals which adversely affect the various processes of the biological system. A certain amount of ... -
Exploring insights of hydroxychloroquine, a controversial drug in Covid-19: An update
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-03-18)The review summarizes chloroquine (CQ) and its safer derivative hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and its utility in Covid-19. Recently this well-established drug made its way back to the headlines during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. ... -
Global trends in pesticides: A looming threat and viable alternatives
(Academic Press, 2020)Pesticides are widely used chemical compounds in agriculture to destroy insects, pests and weeds. In modern era, they form an indispensable part of agricultural and health practices. Globally, nearly 3 billion kg of ... -
Impact and prospects of pesticides on human and environmental health
(Elsevier, 2023-03-17)The changing nature of pesticides has led to the evolution of advanced pesticides which become troublesome for pest control in agriculture and thereby increasing the resistivity of pesticides. Pesticide poisoning emerges ... -
Phytotoxic selectivity analysis of Eucalyptus tereticornisessential oil against rice, Oryza sativa and its weeds,Echinochloa crus-galli and Cyperus rotundus
(Sadhna, 2015)The present study was undertaken to explore the phytotoxic potential of essential oil (EO) fromEucalyptus tereticornis against two major weeds of rice viz Echinochloa crus-galli and Cyperusrotundus. The effect of essential ... -
A Protein and Membrane Integrity Study of TiO2 Nanoparticles-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Prevention by Iron Incorporation
(Springer, 2021-03-31)The paper assessed the toxic effect of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) on isolated mitochondria and its dysfunction prevention after Iron (Fe) incorporation. TiO2 and Fe content TiO2 NPs were synthesized and ... -
Surfactant-assisted dispersion of carbon nanotubes: Mechanism of stabilization and biocompatibility of the surfactant
(2013)Nanoparticles (NPs) are thermodynamically unstable system and tend to aggregate to reduce free energy. The aggregation property of NPs results in inhomogeneous exposure of cells to NPs resulting in variable cellular ...