Total mercury content in hair and neurologic signs: Historic data from minamata

Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-193

  Yorifuji, Takashi ^a   Tsuda, Toshihide ^b   Takao, Soshi ^a   Suzuki, Etsuji ^a   Harada, Masazumi ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINAMATA DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; IRAQ; MERCURIALISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; IRAQ; JAPAN; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149126977     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318190e73f     Document Type: Article

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