Feeding mice with diets containing mercury-contaminated fish flesh from French Guiana: A model for the mercurial intoxication of the Wayana Amerindians

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Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bourdineaud, Jean Paul ^a   Bellance, Nadège ^a   Bénard, Giovani ^a   Brèthes, Daniel ^b   Fujimura, Masatake ^c   Gonzalez, Patrice ^a   Marighetto, Aline ^a   Maury Brachet, Régine ^a   Mormède, Cécile ^a   Pédron, Vanessa ^a   Philippin, Jean Nicolas ^a   Rossignol, Rodrigue ^a   Rostène, William ^d   Sawada, Masumi ^c   Laclau, Muriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^d HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; METHYLMERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED FISH; DIET; ETHNIC GROUP; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTOXICATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MERCURIAL INTOXICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; VEGETARIAN DIET; WAYANA AMERINDIANS; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MERCURIALISM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); MUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MERCURY POISONING; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 56349097734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-53     Document Type: Article

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