Assessment of trace heavy metals contamination in the tissues and saliva of the medicinal leech hirudinaria manillensis

• Main Authors: Alaama, Mohamed, Abdualkader, Abdualrahman Mohammed, Ghawi, Abbas Mohammad, Merzouk, Ahmed, Khalid, Reem. S., Helal Uddin, A.B.M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Central Fisheries Research Institute of Turkey and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and published in English 2021
• Subjects: QD Chemistry; RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology; RS403 Materia Medica-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/91240/7/91240_Assessment%20of%20Trace%20Heavy%20Metals%20Contamination%20in%20the%20Tissues%20and%20Saliva.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/91240/13/91240_Assessment%20of%20trace%20heavy%20metals%20contamination%20in%20the%20tissues.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/91240/; https://www.trjfas.org/uploads/pdf_14824.pdf

Concentrations of heavy metals (HMs) in the tissues and saliva extracts of leeches (Hirudinaria manillensis) collected from Cheneh Lake, Terengganu, Malaysia were investigated. Concentrations of HMs like Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), Selenium (Se) an...