The toxicology of mercury and its chemical compounds

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 609-662

  Clarkson, Thomas W ^a   Magos, Laszlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dental Amalgam; Ethylmercury; Inorganic Mercury; Mercury; Mercury Vapor; Methylmercury; Phenylmercury; Thimerosal

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DENTAL ALLOY; ETHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERBROMIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURIC NITRATE; MERCURIC OXIDE; MERCUROUS CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; METHOXYETHYLMERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; PHENYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; THIOMERSAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ACRODYNIA; ACUTE TOXICITY; ALLERGY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MERCURIALISM; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TOOTH FILLING; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY POISONING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; THIMEROSAL;

EID: 33745915895     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440600845619     Document Type: Review

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