Five hundred years of mercury exposure and adaptation

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lombardi, Guido ^a   Lanzirotti, Antonio ^b   Qualls, Clifford ^c   Socola, Francisco ^d   Ali, Abdul Mehdi ^c   Appenzeller, Otto ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOSPHERE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR GROWTH; INHERITANCE; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERU; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAIR; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 84864925278     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/472858     Document Type: Article

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