Mercury exposure and oxidative stress in communities of the Brazilian Amazon

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 806-811

  Grotto, Denise ^a   Valentini, Juliana ^a   Fillion, Myriam ^b   Passos, Carlos José Souza ^c   Garcia, Solange Cristina ^d   Mergler, Donna ^b   Barbosa Jr , Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Antioxidant biomarkers; Fish consumption; Mercury exposure; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CLINICAL SAMPLES; FISH CONSUMPTION; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONES; INVERSE RELATIONS; MERCURY EXPOSURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; WHOLE BLOOD;

BLOOD; FISH; MEATS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MERCURY (METAL);

ANTIOXIDANT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MERCURY; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME REACTIVATION; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RIVERS; YOUNG ADULT;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 72149099868     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.053     Document Type: Article

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