Gestational mercury vapor exposure and diet contribute to mercury accumulation in neonatal rats

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 735-739

  Morgan, Daniel L ^a   Price, Herman C ^b   Fernando, Reshan ^c   Chanda, Sushmita M ^a   O'Connor, Robert W ^b   Barone Jr , Stanley S ^d   Herr, David W ^d   Beliles, Robert P ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diet; Gestational exposure; Kidney; Liver; Long Evans rats; Mercury; Neonate

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; BREAST MILK; CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; LIVER LEVEL; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MERCURIALISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAPOR; WEANING;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646363768     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8754     Document Type: Article

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