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Evaluation of immunotoxic and immunodisruptive effects of inorganic arsenite on human monocytes/macrophages.
International immunopharmacology - 1 Feb 2006
Sakurai Teruaki, Ohta Takami, Tomita Norifumi, Kojima Chikara, Hariya Yukie, Mizukami Ayumu, Fujiwara Kitao
Abstract excerpt
A trivalent inorganic arsenic, arsenite, has been causing chronic inflammation in humans through the consumption of contaminated well water. The total peripheral blood arsenic concentrations of chronic arsenic-exposed patients, who had inflammatory-like immune responses, are less than 1 microM, thus, nM concentrations may be very important regarding the chronic inflammatory effects by arsenite. However, there are...
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