Mathematical model insights into arsenic detoxification

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Arsenic in drinking water, a major health hazard to millions of people in South and East Asia and in other parts of the world, is ingested primarily as trivalent inorganic arsenic (iAs), which then undergoes hepatic methylation to me...

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Main Authors: Nijhout H Frederik, Gamble Mary V, Hall Megan N, Cinderella Molly, Lawley Sean D, Reed Michael C
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-08-01
Series:Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
Online Access:http://www.tbiomed.com/content/8/1/31