Concise International Chemical Assessment Document 50: Elemental mercurcy and inorganic mercury compounds: Human health aspects

IPCS Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents

Volumn , Issue 50, 2003, Pages

  Risher, J F ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; CHELATING AGENT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LAXATIVE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURIC OXIDE; MERCUROUS CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; STIBOCAPTATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSORPTION; ACRODYNIA; AMNESIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENICITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXCRETION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENOTOXICITY; GINGIVITIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LICHEN PLANUS; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MERCURIALISM; METABOLISM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYNEUROPATHY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN SENSITIZATION; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STOMATITIS; TACHYCARDIA; TOOTH PAIN; TOXICOKINETICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TREMOR; VOMITING; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

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