Zuckerman, Molly K.
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Open Archaeology
Mercury was commonly used to treat syphilis in post-medieval Europe, but debate persists about whether it ameliorated infection or exacerbated it. As there are no in vitro studies on mercury’s effectiveness, Hg levels were characterized using an established technique, portable X-Ray Florescence Spectrometry (pXRF) in syphilitic skeletons (N=22) fro...
Seo, Jae Sam Yoo, Dae Young Jung, Hyo Young Kim, Dong-Woo Hwang, In Koo Lee, Jong Young Moon, Seung Myung
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Biomedical reports
In this randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial, the effects of Dendropanax morbifera (D. morbifera) Léveille on heavy metal (cadmium and mercury) excretion as well as on lipid peroxidation and Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) activity were investigated. For this study, tablets containing placebo or 300 mg of the leaf extract ...
Vähäsarja, Niko Montgomery, Scott Sandborgh-Englund, Gunilla Ekbom, Anders Ekstrand, Jan Näsman, Peggy Naimi-Akbar, Aron
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Journal of Perinatal Medicine
Objective: Prenatal exposure to elemental mercury may be a potential hazard for the offspring of female dental personnel working with dental amalgam. The aim of this study was to investigate whether potential in utero exposure to mercury might have affected the development of nervous system of the sons of Swedish female dental personnel leading to ...
Finley, Monica L. D. Kidd, Karen A. Curry, R. Allen Lescord, Gretchen L. Clayden, Meredith G. O'Driscoll, Nelson J.
Published in
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Methylmercury (MeHg) bioaccumulation in lower-trophic-level organisms and its subsequent biomagnification through food webs differs in magnitude among lakes and results in intraspecific variability of MeHg in top predator fishes. Understanding these differences is critical given the reproductive and neurotoxic effects of MeHg on fishes and their pr...
Timmaraju, K Phanisree Fajurally, Bibi Najah Armstrong, Andrea F Chettle, David R
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Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
The goals of the present study were to develop a (170)Tm radioisotope and generate a K XRF spectrum of mercury. Thulium foil and thulium oxide powder were both tested for impurities and the latter was found to be a better prospect for further studies. The (170)Tm radioisotope was developed from thulium oxide powder following the method of disolutio...
Le Gac, Stéphane Boitrel, Bernard
This minireview highlights the unusual coordination geometries observed in bimetallic complexes of mercury, thallium, lead and bismuth. These bimetallic complexes remain scarce and through an analysis of their X-ray structures, the various structural features that favorise them will be underlined
Guimarães, Diana Praamsma, Meredith L. Parsons, Patrick J.
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Spectrochimica acta. Part B, Atomic spectroscopy
X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) is a rapid, non-destructive multi-elemental analytical technique used for determining elemental contents ranging from percent down to the µg/g level. Although detection limits are much higher for XRF compared to other laboratory-based methods, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), ICP-o...
Galashev, A. E.
Published in
The Physics of Metals and Metallography
The method of molecular dynamics has been used to study the removal of mercury from graphene by irradiating the target using a beam of Xe13 clusters with energies of 5–30 eV at angles of incidence of 0°, 45°, and 60°. The edges of the graphene sheet were hydrogenated. The complete removal of mercury from graphene was achieved at the angles of incid...
Crosby, Jeffrey James, Jay
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Reviews on Environmental Health
Mercury is a pollutant of pressing global concern. National and international efforts are focused on reducing mercury in the environment to prevent its adverse health impacts. Better sensors would aid in these efforts. This paper details ongoing efforts to deploy novel plasmonic mercury sensors. The authors describe the research efforts to develop ...
Łuczyńska, Joanna Łuczyński, Marek Jan Paszczyk, Beata Tońska, Elżbieta
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Journal of Veterinary Research
Introduction: The study examined the concentration of total mercury and correlation coefficients between fish size or FCF (condition factor) and the content of Hg in muscle tissue of six freshwater fish: bream (Abramis brama L.), roach (Rutilus rutilus L.), whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus L.), vendace (Coregonus albula L.), perch (Perca fluviatilis ...
