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Non-essential Metals in Chemical Biology

Author(s) -

Paul J. Dyson

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

chimia international journal for chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 2673-2424

pISSN - 0009-4293

DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2011.839

Subject(s) - heavy metals , biochemical engineering , pill , nanotechnology , environmental chemistry , chemistry , biology , materials science , pharmacology , engineering

Metal ions and compounds are essential to life and many people routinely take them as food supplements in the form of vitamin and mineral pills. Most non-essential metals are considered to be toxic, nevertheless, many are widely used in imaging, diagnostics and medicine. This short review provides an overview from selected examples of the on-going research within my laboratory that uses metal compounds to either understand biological processes or that exhibit therapeutic properties overcoming the limitations of existing chemotherapies.

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