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Methane cycling microbes are important predictors of methylmercury accumulation in rice paddies [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyMicrobial production of methylmercury from inorganic mercury in rice paddies poses health risks to consumers of this essential dietary staple. Although mercury-methylating communities are well characterized, the microbial guilds contributing to ...
Rui Zhang +7 more
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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.
Ana Claudia Santiago de Vasconcellos +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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Methylmercury toxic mechanism related to protein degradation and chemokine transcription
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2020 Methylmercury is an environmental pollutant that causes neurotoxicity. Recent studies have reported that the ubiquitin-proteasome system is involved in defense against methylmercury toxicity through the degradation of proteins synthesizing the pyruvate ...
Jin-Yong Lee +3 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 ...
L.A.L. Maués +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 We recently found that tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) may be involved in neuronal cell death induced by methylmercury in the mouse brain. Here, we examined the cells involved in the induction of TNF-α expression by methylmercury in the mouse brain by in
Takashi Toyama +6 more
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Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022 Objective To investigate changes in peripheral erythrocyte methylmercury among pregnant women during different gestational periods and the methylmercury in neonatal umbilical cord blood erythrocyte.
Xing CHEN +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2011 We evaluated the potential neuroprotective effect of 1-100 µM of four organoselenium compounds: diphenyl diselenide, 3’3-ditri-fluoromethyldiphenyl diselenide, p-methoxy-diphenyl diselenide, and p-chloro-diphenyl diselenide, against methylmercury ...
D.F. Meinerz +12 more
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Health Impacts and Biomarkers of Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury: Lessons from Minamata, Japan
Toxics, 2018 The main chemical forms of mercury are elemental mercury, inorganic divalent mercury, and methylmercury, which are metabolized in different ways and have differing toxic effects in humans.
Mineshi Sakamoto +8 more
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Cells, 2019 Homeobox protein B13 (HOXB13), a transcription factor, is related to methylmercury toxicity; however, the downstream factors involved in enhancing methylmercury toxicity remain unknown.
Takashi Toyama +8 more
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