Higher faecal excretion and lower tissue accumulation of mercury in Wistar rats from contaminated fish than from methylmercury chloride added to fish

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1359-1366

  Berntssen, Marc H G ^a   Hylland, Ketil ^b   Lundebye, Anne Katrine ^a   Julshamn, Kåre ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

AAS, atomic absorption spectrometry; Bioavailability; FI CVAAS, flow injection cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry; HG AAS, hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry; Metallothionein; Methylmercury; Salmon

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPOSURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MEAL; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEA FOOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DIET; FECES; GROWTH; MALE; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SALMON; SELENIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 2942633297     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

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