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Covalently Linked Peptides and Membrane Potential Enable CyaA Segment Translocation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using a newly developed Droplet Interface Bilayer‐Pipette assay, the authors show that two segments of the CyaA toxin cross membranes by distinct mechanisms. One segment translocates spontaneously, whereas the translocation of the other depends on membrane potential.
Gaia Scilironi, Nicolas Carvalho, Jacinthe Frangieh, Corentin Léger, Dorothée Raoux‐Barbot, J. Iñaki Guijarro, Daniel Ladant, Sophie Cribier, Nicolas Rodriguez, Alexandre Chenal   +9 more
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Acute respiratory syndrome following accidental inhalation of mercury vapor

Clinical Case Reports, 2018
Key Clinical Message Although the manufacture of glass mercury thermometers is now prohibited, they are still present in daily life and represent a source of accidental mercury intoxication.
Jorge Cortes, Jaime Peralta, Rienzi Díaz‐Navarro   +2 more
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Article Commentary: Chelation Therapy for Mercury Poisoning

, 2009
Chelation therapy has been the major treatment for heavy metal poisoning. Various chelating agents have been developed and tested for treatment of heavy metal intoxications, including mercury poisoning.
Han Dai, Rong Guan
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Deciphering Intricacies in Directional CO2 Conversion From Electrolysis to CO2 Batteries

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review will delve into the inherent connections and distinctions of CO2‐directed conversion in ECO2RR and CO2 batteries, in terms of product types, catalyst selection, catalytic mechanisms, and electrochemical performances, while proposing a benchmarking framework for the evaluation of CO2 batteries and innovative CO2 battery configurations for ...
Changfan Xu, Huaping Zhao, Lizhuang Chen, Weidong Shi, Guosheng Shao, Yong Lei   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

MERCURY POISONING AND MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW [PDF]

, 2016
A great number of literatures have been documented the destructive effects of the heavy metal toxin on the brain, kidneys, and nervous systems.Mercury is one of such chemicals of the environmental toxin which produces adverse effects causing mercury ...
Sabarathinam, Jembulingam, Priya, Dr.vishnu, Dandapani, Mrs.gayathri   +2 more
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Adverse drug reactions in patients treated with sodium dimercaptosulphonate injection for mercury poisoning and influencing factors

环境与职业医学
BackgroundAdverse drug reactions (ADRs) to sodium dimercaptosulphonate (DMPS) mercury removal treatment have been reported in occupational mercury poisoning.
Ye CHEN, Huixia JI, Dandan LIU, Yang SHEN   +3 more
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The neuropsychiatric sequelae of mercury poisoning. The Mad Hatter's disease revisited

, 1995
BACKGROUND The detailed effects of mercury poisoning on cognitive function, brain anatomy and regional brain function are largely unknown. We report the case of a 38-year-old man who was exposed to toxic levels of inorganic mercury.
Ebmeier, KP, Masterton, George, Goodwin, GM, Ebmeier, Klaus P, Dougall, Nadine, Masterton, G., Ebmeier, K. P., O'Carroll, R. E., O'Carroll, RE, Dougall, N, Masterton, G, Goodwin, Guy M, Goodwin, G. M., Ebmeier, Klaus, Dougall, N., O'Carroll, Ronan   +15 more
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta, Paola Mason, Sofia Bollini, Giovanni Magno   +3 more
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The evaluation of total mercury and arsenic in skin bleaching creams commonly used in Trinidad and Tobago and their potential risk to the people of the Caribbean

Journal of Public Health Research, 2017
Background. Skin lightening is very popular among women and some men of the Caribbean, and its popularity appears to be growing. The lightening of skin colour is done to produce a lighter complexion which is believed to increase attractiveness, social ...
Terry Mohammed, Elisabeth Mohammed, Shermel Bascombe   +2 more
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The effect of heavy metals on differentiated neuronal and glial cells [PDF]

, 2007
Heavy metal poisoning poses a serious health risk among populations worldwide. The symptoms presented by exposure are varied and depend upon the species of the metal, the age of the individual and the exposure dose.
Lawton, M, Lawton, Michelle
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