Ep. 145 Poisons Pt 1: Heavy Metal

Petri Dish

English - May 09, 2022 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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Hey everyone! Nathan wanted to know how poisons work and we're starting with some metals! Metal poisons are pretty interesting because they aren't complex molecules or anything, they're like single atoms running around messing up your biological systems! But how do metals interact with biology in the first place? Let's get into it!

References:

https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/toxin

https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/toxicant

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05027

www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(19)31639-0.pdf

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05027

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103093/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755212/

https://watermark.silverchair.com/labmed33-0614.pdf

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00754/full