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4 Circulating miRNAs as Biomarkers of Toxic Heavy Metal Exposure
Alexandra N. Nail, Ana P. Ferragut Cardoso, Mayukh Banerjee, and J. Christopher States
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Metals and the Focus of This Chapter
Metals are defined as elements that readily form cations and are composed of a lattice of positive ions surrounded by a cloud of delocalized electrons. Heavy metals have
