English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Heavy metal contamination is a serious problem from both human health and environmental perspective. The increasing contamination of food and water with a range of heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, chromium, and mercury and their exposure to populations remains a major concern in Bangladesh in recent years1. These hazardous, toxic heavy metals adversely affect human health by bioconcentration, bioaccumulation and biomagnification phenomenon. In children, exposure to high concentration of heavy metals like cadmium, lead, chromium, mercury can cause potentially permanent learning and behavior disorders2. In adults as well as in children heavy metals have deleterious effects on heart, bones, intestines, kidneys, reproductive and nervous systems and leads to death in extreme cases2. While many developed countries have taken some actions to monitor and reduce the problem of heavy metal contamination, it remains neglected in Bangladesh. It is worsening with increasing urbanization and industrial development. Additionally, available conventional methods (precipitation, flocculation, ion exchange, and membrane filtration) for removal of heavy metals from the environment are sometimes inefficient and expensive for practical large-scale use, especially for developing countries like Bangladesh3. Therefore it is necessary to seek alternative solutions for reducing the load of toxic heavy metals from the environment and thereby protecting human.

Probiotic Lactobacillus sp. with bioremediation potential of toxic heavy metals