Toxicity of organic and inorganic mercury species in differentiated human neurons and human astrocytes

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-208

  Lohren, Hanna ^a   Blagojevic, Lara ^b,d   Fitkau, Romy ^a   Ebert, Franziska ^a   Schildknecht, Stefan ^c   Leist, Marcel ^c   Schwerdtle, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytotoxicity; Human differentiated neurons; Mercuric mercury; Methylmercury; Thiomersal

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; MERCURY CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THIOMERSAL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CCF STTG1 CELL LINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LUHMES CELL LINE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM;

APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CASPASE 3; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; THIMEROSAL;

EID: 84939626355     PISSN: 0946672X     EISSN: 18783252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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