Some foods and medicines can help remove heavy metals from the body. Using such substances for this purpose is a heavy metal detox. Small amounts of heavy metals, such as iron and zinc, are essential ...

Specific protein-based and riboswitch-based metal sensors monitor the intracellular levels of metal ions and regulate the expression of pathways for uptake, storage and efflux, as well as alternative ...

The field of metal toxicology is vast, and although a wealth of information exists to account for bacterial resistance mechanisms towards metals, much less is known about the molecular and cellular ...