Using human hair as an indicator for exposure to mercury

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Kruzikova, Kamila ^a   Kensova, Renata ^a   Blahova, Jana ^a   Harustiakova, Danka ^b   Svobodova, Zdenka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fish intake, marine fish, freshwater fish; Methylmercury; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FISH; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MERCURIALISM; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 77349120040     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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