Recent advances in evaluation of health effects on mercury with special reference to methylmercury - A minireview

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 171-176

  Honda, Shun'ichi ^a   Hylander, Lars ^b   Sakamoto, Mineshi ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global cycle; Mercury; Metabolism; Methylmercury; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MERCURIALISM; MINAMATA DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SEA FOOD; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 33746875510     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.11.171     Document Type: Short Survey

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