Evaluation of toxic effects of a diet containing fish contaminated with methylmercury in rats mimicking the exposure in the Amazon riverside population

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1074-1082

  Grotto, Denise ^a   Valentini, Juliana ^a   Serpeloni, Juliana Mara ^a   Monteiro, Patrícia Alves Ponte ^a   Latorraca, Elder Francisco ^a   De Oliveira, Ricardo Santos ^a   Antunes, Lusânia Maria Greggi ^a   Garcia, Solange Cristina ^b   Barbosa, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Fish consumption; Genotoxicity; Inflammation; Methylmercury; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CATALASE; DNA; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; METHYLMERCURY; NITRIC OXIDE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; RIVER WATER; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BLOOD; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTOXICITY; INFILTRATION; LIPID; METHYLMERCURY; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COMET ASSAY; DIET; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOUTH AMERICA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMAZONIA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80755139358     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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