Occupational and environmental toxicology of mercury and its compounds

Industrial Health

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-164

  Satoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental effects; In utero exposure; Mercury; Mercury vapor; Methylmercury; Neurobehavioral effects

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MERCURIALISM; MINAMATA DISEASE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; REVIEW; TERATOGENICITY; TREMOR; VAPOR;

ATAXIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034026563     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.38.153     Document Type: Review

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