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Congenital Minamata disease: intrauterine methylmercury poisoning.
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This article is published in Teratology.The article was published on 1978-10-01. It has received 386 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Minamata disease.read more
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Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Japan caused by environmental pollution
TL;DR: While the number of grave cases with acute M. d.
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Nanozymes: Classification, Catalytic Mechanisms, Activity Regulation, and Applications
TL;DR: This review systematically introduces the classification, catalytic mechanism, activity regulation as well as recent research progress of nanozymes in the field of biosensing, environmental protection, and disease treatments, etc. in the past years.
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Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: a worldwide concern.
Donna Mergler,Henry A. Anderson,Laurie Hing Man Chan,Kathryn R. Mahaffey,Michael Murray,Mineshi Sakamoto,Alan H. Stern +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that to preserve human health, all efforts need to be made to reduce and eliminate sources of exposure from the large number of marine and freshwater fish and fish-eating species.
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Molecular and ionic mimicry and the transport of toxic metals.
TL;DR: This review will present the established and putative roles of molecular and ionic mimicry in the transport of mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, selenium, and selected oxyanions in target organs and tissues.
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Metals, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration: a focus on iron, manganese and mercury.
TL;DR: This review focuses on the neurodegenerative mechanisms and effects of Fe, Mn and Hg, addressing the main sources of exposure to these metals, their transport mechanisms into the brain, and therapeutic modalities to mitigate their neurotoxic effects.
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Intra-uterine methylmercury poisoning in Iraq.
Laman Amin-Zaki,Laman Amin-Zaki,Sami B. Elhassani,Sami B. Elhassani,Mohamed A. Majeed,Mohamed A. Majeed,Thomas W. Clarkson,Thomas W. Clarkson,Richard A. Doherty,Richard A. Doherty,Michael R. Greenwood,Michael R. Greenwood +11 more
TL;DR: Clinical and laboratory evaluation of 15 infant-mother pairs exposed to methylmercury during pregnancy, including mercury determinations in blood samples of mothers and infants, and in milk samples from mothers, during the first seven months following the epidemic.
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Fetal Minamata disease. A neuropathological study of two cases of intrauterine intoxication by a methyl mercury compound.
TL;DR: It is concluded that cerebral palsy was caused by mercury intoxication acquired prenatally from the mother, although the mothers did not show manifestations of Minamata disease.
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Congenital Mercury Poisoning
TL;DR: Mercury poisoning in utero due to maternal exposure has rarely been reported and neurological damage occurs in adults and children after poisoning with mercury compounds.
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Alkyl Mercury Poisoning
Gunnar Engleson,Torsten Herner +1 more
TL;DR: A child from a mercury‐intoxicated family was poisoned after eating porridge prepared from flour which had been treated with an dkyl mercury compound, panogen, which is used by farmers in seed dressing.