Feeding mice with diets containing mercury-contaminated fish flesh from French Guiana: a model for the mercurial intoxication of the Wayana Amerindians

BACKGROUND: In 2005, 84% of Wayana Amerindians living in the upper marshes of the Maroni River in French Guiana presented a hair mercury concentration exceeding the limit set up by the World Health Organization (10 μg/g). To determine whether this mercurial contamination was harmful, mice have been...

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Autores principales: Bourdineaud, Jean-Paul, Bellance, Nadège, Bénard, Giovani, Brèthes, Daniel, Fujimura, Masatake, Gonzalez, Patrice, Marighetto, Aline, Maury-Brachet, Régine, Mormède, Cécile, Pédron, Vanessa, Philippin, Jean-Nicolas, Rossignol, Rodrigue, Rostène, William, Sawada, Masumi, Laclau, Muriel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2584016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18959803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-7-53

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