Evolution of our understanding of methylmercury as a health threat

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1996, Pages 367-379

  Watanabe, Chiho ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral test battery; Epidemiological studies; Fetal exposure; Fetal Minamata disease; Fish eating population; In utero exposure; Methylmercury; Minamata disease; Neurobehavioural effects; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; FETUS; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MERCURIALISM; MINAMATA DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RODENT; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0029953570     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104s2367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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