Reported rates of autism have increased sharply in the United States and the United Kingdom. One possible factor underlying these increases is increased exposure to mercury through thimerosal-containing vaccines, but vaccine exposures need to be evaluated in the context of cumulative exposures during gestation and early infancy. Differential rates of postnatal mercury elimination may explain wh...

Reported rates of autism have increased sharply in the United States and the United Kingdom. One possible factor underlying these increases is increased exposure to mercury through thimerosal-containing vaccines, but vaccine exposures need to be evaluated in the context of cumulative exposures during gestation and early infancy. Differential rates of postnatal mercury elimination may explain wh...

AIM The average mercury load in children under 7-years old was determined in a populated but not overly industrial coastal area in China. METHODS 395 blood samples, 1072 urine samples, and 581 hair samples were collected from 1076 children, aged 0 to 6 years, from eight representative communities of Xiamen, China. Mercury levels in the samples were surveyed. RESULTS The 95% upper limits of ...

SHISHIDO , S. and SUZUKI, T. Mercury in Human Hair: A Comparative Study by Using Two Different Methods of Atomic Absorption and Neutron Activation Analysis. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1974, 113 (4), 351-356 Magos (1971) reported a new method of atomic absorption spectrometry for selective and simple determination of inorganic and organic mercury. To investigate the reliability of Magos's method, the ...

BACKGROUND Different chemical forms of mercury occur naturally in human milk. The most controversial aspect of early post-natal exposure to organic mercury is ethylmercury (EtHg) in thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCV) still being used in many countries. Thus exclusively breastfed infants can be exposed to both, fish derived methylmercury (MeHg) in maternal diets and to EtHg from TCV. The aim o...

BACKGROUND Immune dysregulation associated with mercury has been suggested, although data in the general population are lacking. Chronic exposure to low levels of methylmercury (organic) and inorganic mercury is common, such as through fish consumption and dental amalgams. OBJECTIVE We examined associations between mercury biomarkers and antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity and titer strengt...

The aim of the experiment was to evaluate mercury content in the hair of people in Lubartów and surrounding areas (Lublin region, Poland) depending on their place of residence, lifestyle and diet. mean mercury content in the hair of tested general population from Lubartów and surroundings, which amounted to 0.10±0.07 μg g-1, was similar to the results achieved by other authors for populations f...

Human hair and blood samples from persons living in the town of Wanshan, a mercury mine area in Guizhou Province of China, were collected and the quantitative speciation and structural information of Hg and S in hair samples and of Hg in erythrocyte and serum samples were studied using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Least-squares fitting of the X-ray absorption near-edge spectra found that inor...

We assessed levels and determinants of mercury biomarkers among residents of Montreal and surroundings who eat sportfish from the nearby St. Lawrence River. Participants were selected from 1118 adult fishers responding to a 1996 screening questionnaire; the study sample (n=132) overrepresented respondents expected to have the greatest and the least exposure to mercury. Tissue mercury concentrat...