Maria Elena Crespo-Lopez

TL;DR: Increased genotoxicity was demonstrated in human populations exposed to mercury through diet, occupation or by carrying dental fillings, and concentrations of methylmercury causing significant genotoxic alterations in vitro below both safety limit and concentration were associated with delayed psychomotor development with minimal signs of methylMERcury poisoning.

TL;DR: This paper presents a review about mercury contamination and human exposure in the Tapajós River basin (Brazil), one of the major tributaries of the Amazon impacted by traditional gold mining from the mid 1980s.

TL;DR: Results underline the differential sensitivity of these tasks to assess serotonergic agents; alternatively, serotonin might regulate zebrafish behavior differently in the novel tank test and in the light/dark test.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates, for the first time, MeHg ability to provoke genotoxicity in cells of brain origin with relatively low levels of exposure.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that exposure to inorganic mercury in low doses, even in spite of its poor ability to cross biological barriers, is still capable of inducing motor deficits, cell death by cytotoxicity and apoptosis, and oxidative stress in the motor cortex of adult rats.