Validity of methyl mercury hair analysis: Mercury monitoring in human scalp/nude mouse model

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 535-542

  Zareba, Grazyna ^a   Cernichiari, Elsa ^a   Goldsmith, Lowell A ^b   Clarkson, Thomas W ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Hair; Human skin; Methyl mercury monitoring, kinetics; Nude mouse

Indexed keywords

HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKIN GRAFT; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCALP; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 44149113511     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.1307     Document Type: Article

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