Comparative toxicogenomic responses of mercuric and methyl-mercury

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McElwee, Matthew K ^a   Ho, Lindsey A ^b   Chou, Jeff W ^a,c   Smith, Marjolein V ^b   Freedman, Jonathan H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SRA International Inc   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Inorganic mercury; Metal toxicity; Methylmercury; Organic mercury; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EMBRYO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MERCURIALISM; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOXICOGENETICS; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXICITY; TUMOR CELL LINE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXICOGENETICS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84887007387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-698     Document Type: Article

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