Arsenic Toxicity and Neurobehaviors: A Review (original) (raw)

Deterioration in public health due to arsenic toxicity is a worldwide concern for clinicians. The subject requires extensive and careful assessment of arsenic toxicity born symptoms, across the geographical boundaries. Arsenic induced deleterious effects have been documented in countries, including India, Bangladesh, Argentina, Australia, China, Hungary, Thailand, Mexico and United States of America, which cover the major part of world population. Arsenic found in soil and drinking water comes from geophysical as well as anthropogenic sources. Humans are exposed to arsenic through food, drinking water and or smelters. Nevertheless, newborns are most sensitive to arsenic insult and if mother is exposed to arsenic at gestational stage, irreversible postnatal cardiac, carcinogenic, behavioral, cognitive and motor disabilities are inevitable. Sufficient data from animal studies on hamsters, mice, rats and rabbits demonstrate arsenic to produce developmental toxicity, which includes malf...