Cadmium Toxicity New Aspects in Human Disease, Rice Contamination, and Cytotoxicity /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Himeno, Seiichiro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Aoshima, Keiko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine,
• Subjects: Health promotion.; Environmental health.; Nephrology.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Environmental Health.

This volume focuses on cadmium (Cd) exposure, its effects on human health, the mechanism of Cd accumulation and the development of mitigation technologies. Further, it discusses clinical, epidemiological, agricultural, toxicological, and biochemical aspects of Cd pollution and presents recent bioche...

Table of Contents:

• Overview. Overview of historical and current problems of cadmium pollution in Japan
• Health effects of cadmium in human populations and its relation to cadmium exposure levels. History and present status of Itai-Itai disease
• Pathophysiology of renal and bone lesions in Itai-itai disease
• A long-term follow-up study of the residents exposed to cadmium in Kakehashi River basin
• Effects of cadmium exposure on life prognosis
• Evaluation of cadmium exposure and health effects among rice farmers in Akita prefecture
• Cadmium intake from foods among general population in Japan and Asia
• Rice contamination by cadmium and its remediation. Regulation of cadmium contents in rice
• Molecular mechanism of cadmium accumulation in rice
• Mitigation technologies of cadmium and arsenic in rice
• Development of low-cadmium-accumulating rice
• New aspects in the mechanisms of cadmium toxicity. Novel mechanisms of cadmium-induced cell death
• Cadmium transport and toxicity in the kidney
• Disturbance in phosphorus metabolism by cadmium exposure.