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Mechanisms Of Arsenic-Induced Suppression Of Early Red Blood Cell Development, Sebastian Medina
Mechanisms Of Arsenic-Induced Suppression Of Early Red Blood Cell Development, Sebastian Medina
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Anemia adversely impacts the health of more than a billion people worldwide. A strong association between anemia and arsenic exposure has been reported in epidemiological studies from multiple countries. However, the mechanistic bases for the association between arsenic exposure and anemia is not fully understood. In this study, we found an inverse association between drinking water arsenic exposures and clinical indicators of anemia (i.e., red blood cell counts and hematocrit/packet cell volumes) in a cohort of men from rural Bangladesh enrolled in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study.
Follow-up studies in mice, revealed that 60-day exposure to trivalent inorganic …