Cellular Effects of Heavy Metals

1. Heavy Metals, Trace Elements and Their Cellular Effects
Gáspár Bánfalvi

2. Toxic Metal/Metalloid Tolerance in Fungi—A Biotechnology-Oriented Approach
István Pócsi

3. Interference of Chromium with Cellular Functions
Borut Poljsak, István Pócsi, Miklós Pesti

4.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model Organism for Elucidating Arsenic Tolerance Mechanisms
Robert Wysocki, Markus J. Tamás

5. Heavy Metal Toxicity in an Insect Cell Line (Methyl-HgCl, HgCl2, CdCl2 and CuSO4)
Bart P. Braeckman

6. Cellular Changes in Mammalian Cells Induced by Cadmium
Gáspár Bánfalvi

7. Chromatin Toxicity of Ni(II) Ions in K562 Erythroleukemia Cells
Gábor Nagy, Diána Laza, Kinga Ujvárosi, Gáspár Bánfalvi

8. Genotoxic Chromatin Changes in Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Induced by Hexavalent chromium (CrVI) Ions
Gábor Papp, Gábor Nagy, István Pócsi, Miklós Pesti, Gáspár Bánfalvi

9. Chromatin Changes upon Silver Nitrate Treatment in Human Keratinocyte HaCaT and K562 Erythroleukemia Cells
Gábor Nagy, Melinda Turáni, Katalin Éva Kovács, Gáspár Bánfalvi

10. Heavy Metal-Induced Carcinogenicity: Depleted Uranium and Heavy-Metal Tungsten Alloy
John F. Kalinich

11. Role of Oxidative Damage in Metal-Induced Carcinogenesis
Kazimierz S. Kasprzak

12. Non-native Proteins as Newly-Identified Targets of Heavy Metals and Metalloids
Sandeep K. Sharma, Pierre Goloubinoff, Philipp Christen

13. Cellular Mechanisms to Respond to Cadmium
Cadmium
Exposure: Ubiquitin Ligases
Karin Flick, Peter Kaiser

14. Metals Induced Disruption of Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Activation of Stress Signaling and Apoptosis
Xiaozhong Yu, Rafael A. Ponce, Elaine M. Faustman

15. Blood Lead Level (BLL, B-Pb) in Human and Animal Populations: B-Pb as a Biological Marker to Environmental Lead Exposure
Nelly Mañay, Adriana Cousillas, Teresa Heller

16. Removal of Heavy Metal Sulfides and Toxic Contaminants from Water
Gábor Szalóki, Ildikó Czégény, Gábor Nagy, Gáspár Bánfalvi

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Cell Biology, Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, Ecotoxicology, Inorganic Chemistry