Reduced exposure to mercury in patients receiving enteral nutrition

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 209-212

  Munakata, Mitsutoshi ^a   Onuma, Akira ^b   Haginoya, Kazuhiro ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuko ^b   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Ikuma ^a   Yasuda, Hiroshi ^c   Tsutsui, Toyoharu ^c   Iinuma, Kazuie ^a   Tsuchiya, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Takuto Rehabilitation Center for Children   (Japan)

^c Research Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enteral nutrition; Hair; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS); Mercury; Methylmercury

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; MERCURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROSTOMY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURIALISM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOSE FEEDING; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 33750732603     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.210.209     Document Type: Article

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