Organic and inorganic mercury in neonatal rat brain after prenatal exposure to methylmercury and mercury vapor

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-248

  Ishitobi, Hiromi ^a   Stern, Sander ^a   Thurston, Sally W ^a   Zareba, Grazyna ^a   Langdon, Margaret ^a   Gelein, Robert ^a   Weiss, Bernard ^a  

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

Author keywords

Brain; Coexposure; Inorganic mercury; Mercury vapor; Methylmercury; Organic mercury; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; FEMALE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77249087109     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900956     Document Type: Article

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