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ArticleEnvironmental science. Processes & impacts2026

Persistent effects of early-life arsenic exposure in

Kathleen A Hershberger, Shaza Gaballah, Britney Jiayu He, Luoyu Zhang, Emily Barefoot-Gautier, Caroline B Reed, Nelson A Rivera, Heileen Hsu-Kim, Joel N Meyer

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Article in Environmental science. Processes & impacts, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Progeny effects of rotenone exposure depend on parental toxicity.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kathleen A HershbergerNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. joel.meyer@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-6140
Shaza GaballahNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. joel.meyer@duke.edu.
Britney Jiayu HeDepartment of Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8989-1521
Luoyu ZhangDepartment of Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA.
Emily Barefoot-GautierNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. joel.meyer@duke.edu.
Caroline B ReedNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. joel.meyer@duke.edu.
Nelson A RiveraDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Heileen Hsu-KimDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0675-4308
Joel N MeyerNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. joel.meyer@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1219-0983

Funding

Zebrafish as a Detector of Organophosphate ExposureP42ES010356 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI AMY H HERRING · 2000 to 2026
$56.2M
Duke University Program in Environmental HealthT32ES021432 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Akhenaton-Andrew Dhafir Jones, Joel Newman Meyer · 2013 to 2026
$4.0M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES010356NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES021432
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arsenic exposure is a major global health challenge. In addition to well-documented toxic effects in exposed people and animals, there is evidence that exposure to arsenic may lead to transgenerational effects. Transgenerational effects of low levels of exposure are challenging to study in species with long generation times. The model organism

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ArsenicArsenitesCaenorhabditis elegansSodium CompoundsAnimalsEnvironmental ExposureArsenicArsenitesSodium Compounds

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PMID41552942
PMCPMC12814376

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