@article{d2bda27602e8434fab04c7733dc485e0,
title = "Professor Zhifang Chai: Scientific contributions and achievements",
author = "Yuliang Zhao and Chunying Chen and Weiyue Feng and Zhiyong Zhang and Diandou Xu and Weiqun Shi and Shuao Wang and Li, {Yu Feng}",
note = "Funding Information: With the support of a major research project on {"}Toxicological studies of typical environmental pollutants at the molecular level using nuclear analytical techniques{"} funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China with Prof. Chai as the leading scientist, it was found that the concentration of 153 Sm and 169 Yb in the brain was much higher than that in blood, which proved that REEs could enter the brain and remain in the brain for long time [ 15 , 16 ]. Further studies found that the chronic exposure to La and Yb could impair the learning ability of animals with a new mechanism on the neurotoxicology of REEs, i.e., [Ca 2+ ] i /Ca 2+ -ATPase homeostasis, antioxidant enzymes, and LPO were influenced via an indirect, multistep mechanism under a long-term exposure to REEs [17–23] . These studies helped a lot in the understanding of the decline of the mental age and intelligence quotients of the children living at the high-REEs regions. ",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.cclet.2022.04.007",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "3297--3302",
journal = "Chinese Chemical Letters",
issn = "1001-8417",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "7",
}