Pathology 4400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teratology, Botulinum Toxin, Clinical Chemistry

• School: Western University
• Department: Pathology
• Course: Pathology 4400A/B
• Professor: Chandan Chakraborty

Document Summary

Environmental contaminants, chemicals of commerce and ecosystem health. Global environmental hazards to the human health as described by who. Areas of major concern for research activity of the. Schulich ecosystem health research team: climate change: impact on human health and population displacement. Examples of some of our ecosystem health concerns: current exposures to methylmercury by fish consumption result in developmental neurotoxicity in the fetus at any fish-eating first nations in canada. Trying to prevent this: current exposures to arsenic in drinking water and traditional foods in combination with psycho-social stress contribute to the increased risk for the incidence of t2d in. The incidence if t2dm is 5- to 8-fold in first nations in canadian communities than in other. Some reasons for these concerns: fetal methylmercury (mehg) neurotoxicity from consumption of fish. Exposures to mehg via fish consumption are known to mild retard development of the ns in the fetus.