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BMAA, Methylmercury, and Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Dolphins: A Natural Model of Toxin Exposure

Dolphins are well-regarded sentinels for toxin exposure and can bioaccumulate a cyanotoxin called β-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) that has been linked to human neurodegenerative disease. The same dolphins also possessed hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), suggesting a possible association betwee...

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Autores principales: Davis, David A., Garamszegi, Susanna P., Banack, Sandra Anne, Dooley, Patrick D., Coyne, Thomas M., McLean, Dylan W., Rotstein, David S., Mash, Deborah C., Cox, Paul Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8540894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34678990
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins13100697