Uptake of inorganic mercury in the olfactory bulbs via olfactory pathways in rats

Environmental Research

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 130-140

  Henriksson, Jörgen ^a   Tjälve, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amalgam; Axonal transport; Mercury; Olfactory bulbs; Olfactory neurons

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MERCURY 203;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; INHALATION; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032076980     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1997.3817     Document Type: Article

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