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Mercury and heavy metal profiles of maternal and umbilical cord RBCs in Japanese population

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Mineshi Sakamoto, Katsuyuki Murata¹, Machi Kubota, Kunihiko Nakai², Hiroshi Satoh² - Show less +1 more•Institutions (2)

01 Jan 2010-Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

TL;DR: The results indicate that fetal exposure to these metals (excluding Cd) strongly reflected each maternal exposure level, and the placental transfer of methylmercury (MeHg) seemed to be extremely high but that of Cd to be limited.

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Retrospective study on temporal and regional variations of methylmercury concentrations in preserved umbilical cords collected from inhabitants of the Minamata area, Japan.

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Mineshi Sakamoto, Katsuyuki Murata¹, Kazuhito Tsuruta², Ken-ichiro Miyamoto, Hirokatsu Akagi - Show less +1 more•Institutions (2)

Akita University¹, Memorial Hospital of South Bend²

01 Sep 2010-Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

TL;DR: Elevated methylmercury concentrations were first observed in the districts of Minamata, followed by Izumi, Tsunagi and Ashikita, indicating the time-course-dependent regional distributions of methylmerCury pollution.

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