Open AccessCreatinine, Diet, Micronutrients, and Arsenic Methylation in West Bengal, India
Author(s) -
Arin Basu,
Soma Mitra,
Joyce Chung,
D. N. Guha Mazumder,
Nilima Ghosh,
David A. Kalman,
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein,
Craig Steinmaus,
Jane Liaw,
Allan H. Smith
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1003393
Subject(s) - arsenic , creatinine , micronutrient , urine , population , chemistry , metabolite , physiology , medicine , biochemistry , environmental health , organic chemistry
Ingested inorganic arsenic (InAs) is methylated to monomethylated (MMA) and dimethylated metabolites (DMA). Methylation may have an important role in arsenic toxicity, because the monomethylated trivalent metabolite [MMA(III)] is highly toxic.
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