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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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.
Katsuyuki Murata +2 more
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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 ...
Megan Culbreth, Michael Aschner
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Glutathione reductase plays a role in the metabolism of methylmercury degradation in Rhodotorula mucilaginosa [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumMercury 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.
Yi Guo +8 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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Incorporating in vivo demethylation and reduction into mercury mitigation for sustainable development [PDF]
Eco-Environment & HealthMercury pollution, in conjunction with other contaminants, hampers progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Minamata Convention on Mercury, which came into force in 2017, represents a critical step in combating this global ...
Huan Zhong +6 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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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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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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