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David J. Thomas is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to medicine. They specialize in areas including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, pollution, molecular biology, and surgery.

Their work chiefly addresses topics related to heavy metal exposure and toxicity, arsenic contamination and mitigation, heavy metals in the environment, selenium in biological systems, radioactivity and radon measurements, pediatric urology and nephrology studies, and gut microbiota and health.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David J. Thomas include:

  • "Origins, fate, and actions of methylated trivalent metabolites of inorganic arsenic: progress and prospects" (2021) published in Archives of Toxicology
  • "Arsenic methylation - Lessons from three decades of research" (2021) published in Toxicology
  • "Bioavailable soil Pb minimized by in situ transformation to plumbojarosite" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "High Lead Bioavailability of Indoor Dust Contaminated with Paint Lead Species" (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Arsenic Metabolism in Mice Carrying a BORCS7/AS3MT Locus Humanized by Syntenic Replacement" (2020) published in Environmental Health Perspectives

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thomas include:

  • Karen D. Bradham
  • Miroslav Stýblo
  • Gary Diamond
  • Rebecca C. Fry
  • Kirk G. Scheckel

Notable publication venues where Thomas's research frequently appears include UNC Libraries, British Journal of Surgery, Environmental Science & Technology, Archives of Toxicology, and Toxicology.

Best Publications

  • Arsenic Exposure and Toxicology: A Historical Perspective

    Michael F. Hughes;Barbara D. Beck;Yu Chen;Ari S. Lewis

  • Comparative toxicity of trivalent and pentavalent inorganic and methylated arsenicals in rat and human cells.

    M Styblo;L M Del Razo;L Vega;D R Germolec

  • The cellular metabolism and systemic toxicity of arsenic.

    David J. Thomas;Miroslav Styblo;Shan Lin

  • Methylated trivalent arsenic species are genotoxic

    Marc J. Mass;Alan Tennant;Barbara C. Roop;William R. Cullen

  • The role of biomethylation in toxicity and carcinogenicity of arsenic: a research update.

    Miroslav Stýblo;Zuzana Drobná;Ilona Jaspers;Shan Lin

  • Health effects and risk assessment of arsenic

    Charles O. Abernathy;David J. Thomas;Rebecca L. Calderon

  • A novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine:arsenic(III) methyltransferase from rat liver cytosol

    Shan Lin;Qing Shi;F. Brent Nix;Miroslav Styblo

  • Reduction and binding of arsenate and dimethylarsinate by glutathione: a magnetic resonance study

    Marielle Delnomdedieu;Mufeed M. Basti;James D. Otvos;David J. Thomas

  • Arsenic (+3 Oxidation State) Methyltransferase and the Methylation of Arsenicals

    David J. Thomas;Jiaxin Li;Stephen B. Waters;Weibing Xing

  • Elucidating the pathway for arsenic methylation.

    David J Thomas;Stephen B Waters;Miroslav Styblo

  • Comparative inhibition of yeast glutathione reductase by arsenicals and arsenothiols.

    Miroslav Styblo;Spiros V. Serves;William R. Cullen;David J. Thomas

  • Methylarsenicals and arsinothiols are potent inhibitors of mouse liver thioredoxin reductase.

    Shan Lin;William R. Cullen;David J. Thomas

  • Determination of Trivalent Methylated Arsenicals in Biological Matrices

    Luz Maria Del Razo;Miroslav Styblo;William R. Cullen;David J. Thomas

  • High-throughput identification of catalytic redox-active cysteine residues.

    Dmitri E. Fomenko;Weibing Xing;Blakely M. Adair;David J. Thomas

  • Excretion of arsenic in urine as a function of exposure to arsenic in drinking water.

    R L Calderon;E Hudgens;X C Le;D Schreinemachers

  • Disruption of the Arsenic (+3 Oxidation State) Methyltransferase Gene in the Mouse Alters the Phenotype for Methylation of Arsenic and Affects Distribution and Retention of Orally Administered Arsenate

    Zuzana Drobna;Hua Naranmandura;Kevin M. Kubachka;Brenda C. Edwards

  • Molecular processes in cellular arsenic metabolism.

    David J. Thomas

  • Relative Bioavailability and Bioaccessibility and Speciation of Arsenic in Contaminated Soils

    Karen D. Bradham;Kirk G. Scheckel;Clay M. Nelson;Paul E. Seales

  • Transfer of arsenite from glutathione to dithiols: a model of interaction.

    Marielle Delnomdedieu;Mufeed M. Basti;James D. Otvos;David J. Thomas

  • Molecular mechanisms of the diabetogenic effects of arsenic: inhibition of insulin signaling by arsenite and methylarsonous acid.

    David S. Paul;Anne W. Harmon;Vicenta Devesa;David J. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk G. Scheckel
Kirk G. Scheckel Environmental Protection Agency
Albert L. Juhasz
Albert L. Juhasz University of South Australia
William R. Cullen
William R. Cullen University of British Columbia
Michael P. Waalkes
Michael P. Waalkes National Institutes of Health
Samuel Monroe Cohen
Samuel Monroe Cohen University of Nebraska Medical Center
Edward L. LeCluyse
Edward L. LeCluyse Research Triangle Park Foundation
X. Chris Le
X. Chris Le University of Alberta
Pierre Morell
Pierre Morell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
H. Rex Gaskins
H. Rex Gaskins University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vadim N. Gladyshev
Vadim N. Gladyshev Brigham and Women's Hospital

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