A toxicokinetic model for predicting the tissue distribution and elimination of organic and inorganic mercury following exposure to methyl mercury in animals and humans. I. Development and validation of the model using experimental data in rats

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-49

  Carrier, Gaétan ^a   Brunet, Robert C ^a   Caza, Mylène ^a   Bouchard, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inorganic mercury; Methyl mercury; Modeling; Rats; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICOKINETICS; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035865561     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.2000.9112     Document Type: Article

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