Vanadium in the Environment, 2 Part Set

JEROME O. NRIAGU is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, School of Public Health, the University of Michigan, and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. For many years he was a research scientist with the National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario. He is the editor of the Wiley Series in Advances in Environmental Science and Technology and has edited, among many other volumes, Nickel and Human Health, Arsenic in the Environment, and Thallium in the Environment. Dr. Nriagu received BSc and DSc degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhD in geochemistry from the University of Toronto. He has published extensively in leading geochemical and environmental science journals and has received a number of awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

This two part volume in the Advances in Environmental Science and Technology series is organized and presented in the same manner as the successful Arsenic in the Environment books. The author has assembled an international panel of experts to address the effects of vanadium exposure on aquatic and terrestrial environments, on human health, and on wildlife, This monograph is the most up-to-date resource on the chemical and toxicological aspects of vanadium exposure available, and one of the few to explore this topic in a focused manner.

Health effects of environmental exposure to vanadium; toxicology of vanadium in mammals; mutagencity, carcinogenicity and the teratogenicity of vanadium; vanadium exposure tests in humans - hair, nails, blood, and urine; baseline vanadium levels in human blood, serum and urine; vanadium and metabolic problems; vanadium and its significance in animal cell metabolism; hematological effects of vanadium in living organisms; genetic toxicology of vanadium compounds; vanadium and cardiovascular system - regulatory effects and toxicity; effects of vanadate in adrenal gland of mammals; oxidative stress and pro-oxidant biological effects of vanadium; endocrine control of vanadium accumulation; antidiabetic action of vanadium complexes in animals - blood glucose normalizing effect, organ distribution of vanadium and mechanisms for insulin-mimetic action; vanadium detoxification; vanadium - a new tool for cancer prevention - recent progress and future opportunities.