Low-dose exposure to inorganic mercury accelerates disease and mortality in acquired murine lupus

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1273-1277

  Via, Charles S ^a,b   Nguyen, Phuong ^a,b   Niculescu, Florin ^a,b   Papadimitriou, John ^b   Hoover, Dennis ^c   Silbergeld, Ellen K ^c  

^a BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Glomerulonephritis; Graft versus host disease; Lupus; Mercury; T cells

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEREDITY; HOST; LUPUS VULGARIS; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0042975448     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6064     Document Type: Article

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