Search
Search Results
-
Relationship of Size and Mass Characteristics, Indicators of Metabolism, and Mercury Concentration in the Muscle Tissue of Freshwater Fish from Tropical Vietnam
AbstractThe main chemical composition and content of mercury in the muscles of freshwater fish species Xenentodon cancila, Notopterus notopterus,...
-
Effects of Polymetallic Ore Occurrences on Mercury Accumulation by Aquatic Biota in River Ecosystems
AbstractThe study represents the data on metal content in the body of stoneflies Perla pallida Guerin-Meneville, 1838 (Plecoptera, Perlidae) and in...
-
Bioaccumulation of Lead and Mercury in Water, Sediment, and Fish Samples of Baraila Lake, Vaishali, Bihar
In the current study, a protected subtropical wetland in Bihar (India), Baraila Lake, was investigated for heavy metal (Pb and Hg) status. These...
-
Luteolin alleviates inorganic mercury-induced liver injury in quails by resisting oxidative stress and promoting mercury ion excretion
Background
Inorganic mercury is a well-known toxic substance that can cause oxidative stress and liver damage. Luteolin (Lut) is a kind of natural...
-
Impacts of Spectral Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter on Methyl Mercury Contents in Permafrost Wetlands, Northeast China
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in promoting or suppressing methylmercury (MeHg) production in wetlands. However, in the...
-
Mercury Concentration in Saliva and the Impact of Chewing: An Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Study
Mercury, which is found in dental amalgams, is considered to be the most toxic non-radioactive element. However, the health policies of different...
-
Recent advance of microbial mercury methylation in the environment
AbstractMethylmercury formation is mainly driven by microbial-mediated process. The mechanism of microbial mercury methylation has become a crucial...
-
Ornithogenic mercury input to soils of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica
While long-range transport is believed to be the primary source of mercury (Hg) in Antarctica, it is known that seabirds transport organic matter,...
-
Bioremediation of environments contaminated with mercury. Present and perspectives
Mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal whose emission sources can be both natural and the result of anthropic activity. Its polluting action on soils,...
-
Enhanced mercury phytoremediation by Pseudomonodictys pantanalensis sp. nov. A73 and Westerdykella aquatica P71
Mercury is a non-essential and toxic metal that induces toxicity in most organisms, but endophytic fungi can develop survival strategies to tolerate...
-
The Mercury and Low Molecular-Weight Antioxidants Levels in Ungulates of the Republic of Karelia
AbstractThe high toxicity of mercury (Hg) poses a danger to the environment and humans, but studies of the concentration of this metal in...
-
The Association Between Blood Mercury and Lipid Biomarkers in US Hypertensive Adults
AbstractMercury (Hg) is detrimental to human health, but its impact on lipid biomarkers remains a subject of controversy. This study sought to...
-
Spiny water flea invasion alters fish mercury bioaccumulation rates
Bythotrephes cederströemi are a predatory cladoceran zooplankter that have invaded numerous inland lakes in North America, many of which are...
-
Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Vegetable Crops
AbstractBased on extensive material, approaches to assessing the risk of accumulation of heavy metals (HM) in vegetable crops grown in open and...
-
Mercury contamination is an invisible threat to declining migratory shorebirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Exposure to pollutants is a potentially crucial but overlooked driver of population declines in shorebirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway....
-
Blusher mushroom (Amanita rubescens Pers.): A Study of Mercury Content in Substrate and Mushroom Samples from Slovakia with Respect to Locality and Developmental Stages
The edible mushroom Amanita rubescens Pers., regularly collected and consumed in Slovakia, was assessed for health risk due to the mercury content in...
-
Mining-impacted rice paddies select for Archaeal methylators and reveal a putative (Archaeal) regulator of mercury methylation
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a microbially produced neurotoxin derived from inorganic mercury (Hg), which accumulation in rice represents a major health...
-
Mercury–dissolved organic matter interactions: insights on the removal of both pollutants in conventional drinking water treatment
In gold mining regions in the Global South, elemental mercury was historically used to extract gold, and some artisanal and small-scale gold mining...
-
The Roles of the Moss Layer in Mediating Tree Seedling Environmental Stress, Mercury Exposure, and Regeneration in High-Elevation Conifer Forests
The persistence of future forests depends on the success of tree seedlings which are experiencing increasing physiological stress from changing...
-
Plant colonizers of a mercury contaminated site: trace metals and associated rhizosphere bacteria
Background and aimsMercury (Hg) contamination poses severe human and environmental health risks. We aimed to evaluate the colonization of...
