Background and Aims: Mercury, with its oxidative activity, causes damage to the antioxidant enzymes thus resulting in physiological disorders. Sodium selenide is an antioxidant that protects antioxidant enzymes. The aim of this study was to investigate the protective effect of sodium selenide on renal toxicity induced by mercuric chloride in rats. Materials and Methods: Animals were divided in...

528 nature nanotechnology | VOL 3 | SEPTEMBER 2008 | www.nature.com/naturenanotechnology Interestingly, the nano-selenium material captured five times more mercury than the maximum predicted on the basis of its surface area, indicating significant penetration of mercury into the nanoselenium matrix. This did not occur in the other sorbent materials. Even so, the amount of mercury sequestered wa...

The first examples of cycloaurated phosphine sulfides and triphenylphosphine selenide have been synthesised; these complexes are fairly rare examples of gold(iii) complexes with potentially reducing sulfur- and selenium-donor ligands. The cycloaurated complex (AuCl(2)(2-C(6)H(4)P(S)Ph(2)) was synthesised in good yield by transmetallation of the organomercury precursor Hg(2-C(6)H(4)P(S)Ph(2))(2)...

The mechanism of selenium(+4) electrocbemical reduction in acidic perchlorate solutions was studied. Dropping mercury and hanging mercury drop electrodes were used in direct current, alternating current, pulse and differential pulse polarographic and voltammetric measurements. Potentiostatic electrolysis experiments on mercury electrode were also performed. Precipitates formed on the electrode ...

Inert metal-selenide colloids are found in animals. They are believed to afford cross-protection against the toxicities of both metals and selenocompounds. Here, the toxicities of metal salt and sodium selenide mixtures were systematically studied using the death rate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells as an indicator. In parallel, the abilities of these mixtures to produce colloids were assesse...

Top marine predators present high mercury concentrations in their tissues as consequence of biomagnification of the most toxic form of this metal, methylmercury (MeHg). The present study concerns mercury accumulation by Guiana dolphins (Sotalia guianensis), highlighting the selenium-mediated methylmercury detoxification process. Liver samples from 19 dolphins incidentally captured within Guanab...

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) with large band gaps are of great importance for the future applications of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. Employing ab initio electronic calculations we propose a novel type of 2D topological insulators, the monolayer (ML) low-buckled (LB) mercury telluride (HgTe) and mercury selenide (HgSe), with tunable band gap. We demonstrate that LB HgTe ...

Concentrations of methylmercury, total mercury and selenium in marine mammal tissues were determined in liver, muscle, skin (muktuk) and blubber of belugas, ringed seals and narwhal, using atomic absorption and capillary gas chromatography with ECD detection. Mean MeHg levels in the types of tissues analysed, except blubber, generally exceeded the Canadian Federal Consumption Guideline for merc...