Glutathione reductase plays a role in the metabolism of methylmercury degradation in <i>Rhodotorula mucilaginosa</i>. [PDF]
Microbiol SpectrMercury pollution is a kind of heavy metal pollution with great harm and strong toxicity which exists worldwide. Some microorganisms can convert highly toxic methylmercury into inorganic mercury compounds with significantly reduced toxicity.
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Burden of Disease Attributed to Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure in the Yanomami Indigenous Land. [PDF]
ToxicsThe Yanomami Indigenous Land (YIL) is heavily impacted by illegal gold mining, leading to significant contamination by methylmercury, a neurotoxin that poses severe risks to human health.
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Methylmercury Epigenetics [PDF]
Toxics, 2019 Methylmercury (MeHg) has conventionally been investigated for effects on nervous system development. As such, epigenetic modifications have become an attractive mechanistic target, and research on MeHg and epigenetics has rapidly expanded in the past decade.
Megan Culbreth, Michael Aschner
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Methylmercury demethylation and volatilization by animals expressing microbial enzymes. [PDF]
Nat CommunMercury is a highly toxic trace metal that readily biomagnifies in food webs where it is inaccessible to current bioremediation methods. Animals could potentially be engineered to detoxify mercury within their food webs to clean up impacted ecosystems ...
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Dietary mercury intake, the IL23R rs10889677 polymorphism, and the risk of gastric cancer in a Korean population: a hospital-based case-control study. [PDF]
Epidemiol HealthOBJECTIVES Mercury can stimulate immune responses through T helper 17 (Th17). The gene IL23R is a key factor in Th17 function, which may also contribute to digestive tract diseases.
Kim JH +5 more
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Sedimentary Mercury Enrichments as a Tracer of Large Igneous Province Volcanism
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 247-262., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Lawrence M. E. Percival +3 more
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NeuroToxicology, 2023 Methylmercury (MeHg) is neurotoxic at high levels and particularly affects the developing brain. One proposed mechanism of MeHg neurotoxicity is alteration of the epigenetic programming. In this review, we summarise the experimental and epidemiological literature on MeHg-associated epigenetic changes.Experimental and epidemiological studies have ...
Cediel-Ulloa, Andrea +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 ObjectivesMethylmercury metabolism was investigated in Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States.MethodsTotal mercury and methylmercury concentrations were measured in fecal samples and paired colon ...
Sarah E. Rothenberg +7 more
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Science of The Total Environment, 2022 Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) undergoes long-range transport to the Arctic where some of it is transformed into methylmercury (MeHg), potentially leading to high exposure in some Arctic inhabitants and wildlife. The environmental exposure of Hg is determined not just by the amount of Hg entering the Arctic, but also by biogeochemical and ecological ...
Jonsson, Sofi +10 more
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Methylmercury inhibits prolactin release in a cell line of pituitary origin [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2015 Heavy metals, such as methylmercury, are key environmental pollutants that easily reach human beings by bioaccumulation through the food chain. Several reports have demonstrated that endocrine organs, and especially the pituitary gland, are potential ...
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