Developmental neurotoxicity: methylmercury and prenatal exposure protection in the context of the Minamata Convention

• Main Author: Ana Boischio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2015
• Subjects: mercurio; toxicidad; intoxicación por mercurio; compuestos del metilmercurio; oxicidad; intoxicación del sistema nervioso por mercurio; exposición a riesgos ambientales; Nueva Zelanda; América Latina; Región del Caribe; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Mercurio; Human health
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/937453750063485ea1048f325e1ad8ec

Mercury is a global pollutant of public environmental health concern due to its long-range atmospheric distribution, environmental distribution, and neurotoxic effects. Following biological methylation, methylmercury (MeHg) can be un-evenly bioaccumulated within aquatic food chains. Fish consumption...