Mercury

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • CoNaMad-Cohorte de Nacimiento de Madre de Dios /Madre de Dios Birth Cohort to Study Effects of in-utero Trace Metals Exposure in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A Critical Time for Mercury Science to Inform Global Policy. 
  • A nonoccupational outbreak of inorganic mercury vapor poisoning. 
  • A population-based mercury exposure assessment near an artisanal and small-scale gold mining site in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A robust framework to predict mercury speciation in combustion flue gases. 
  • Acid phosphatase activity in subcellular fractions of fish liver exposed to methyl mercuric chloride. 
  • Adult Exposures to Toxic Trace Elements as Measured in Nails along the Interoceanic Highway in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • Antagonistic Growth Effects of Mercury and Selenium in Caenorhabditis elegans Are Chemical-Species-Dependent and Do Not Depend on Internal Hg/Se Ratios. 
  • Application of a modified 203Hg binding assay for metallothionein. 
  • Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. 
  • Aspiration of metallic mercury. A 22-year follow-up. 
  • Association of environmental exposure to heavy metals and eczema in US population: Analysis of blood cadmium, lead, and mercury. 
  • Biogeochemical transformations of mercury in solid waste landfills and pathways for release. 
  • Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes. 
  • Chemistry and biology of copper-chelatin. 
  • Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru. 
  • Construction of new ligand binding sites in proteins of known structure. II. Grafting of a buried transition metal binding site into Escherichia coli thioredoxin. 
  • Crystal lattice defects in nanocrystalline metacinnabar in contaminated streambank soils suggest a role for biogenic sulfides in the formation of mercury sulfide phases. 
  • Crystal structure of bovine Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase at 3 A resolution: chain tracing and metal ligands. 
  • Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Persistent Uncertainties Regarding Environmental Selenium-Mercury Interactions. 
  • Effects of methyl and inorganic mercury exposure on genome homeostasis and mitochondrial function in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Effects of neonatal mercuric chloride administration on growth and biochemical development of neuronal and non-neuronal tissues in the rat: comparison with methylmercury. 
  • Efficacy of Hair Total Mercury Content as a Biomarker of Methylmercury Exposure to Communities in the Area of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 1. Source apportionment using mercury stable isotopes. 
  • Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 2. Effect of coal ash on methylmercury in historically contaminated river sediments. 
  • Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances During Pregnancy and Fetal BDNF Level: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Fish Consumption Patterns and Mercury Advisory Knowledge Among Fishers in the Haw River Basin. 
  • Geographic clustering of elevated blood heavy metal levels in pregnant women. 
  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports. 
  • Growth inhibition and metallothionein induction in cadmium-resistant cells by essential and non-essential metals. 
  • Influence of Sulfide Nanoparticles on Dissolved Mercury and Zinc Quantification by Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers. 
  • Irreversible stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity of fat cell membranes of phosphoramidate and phosphonate analogs of GTP. 
  • Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA. 
  • Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms. 
  • Long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and blood pressure. 
  • Low-level mercury, omega-3 index and neurobehavioral outcomes in an adult US coastal population. 
  • Mechanisms regulating mercury bioavailability for methylating microorganisms in the aquatic environment: a critical review. 
  • Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Mercury water and cauterizing stones: Nicolas André and tic douloureux. 
  • Metal ion interactions with Limulus polyphemus and Callinectes sapidus hemocyanins: stoichiometry and structural and functional consequences of calcium(II), cadmium(II), zinc(II), and mercury(II) binding. 
  • Metals and disorders of cell accumulation: modulation of apoptosis and cell proliferation. 
  • Methylation of mercury by bacteria exposed to dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides 
  • Mobility of Four Common Mercury Species in Model and Natural Unsaturated Soils. 
  • Net methylation of mercury in estuarine sediment microcosms amended with dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides. 
  • Occupational risk factors for the development of systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Population-based dietary exposure to mercury through fish consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Predictors of mitochondrial DNA copy number and damage in a mercury-exposed rural Peruvian population near artisanal and small-scale gold mining: An exploratory study. 
  • Quantification of Mercury Bioavailability for Methylation Using Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Samplers. 
  • Relative Reactivity and Bioavailability of Mercury Sorbed to or Coprecipitated with Aged Iron Sulfides. 
  • Relative contributions of mercury bioavailability and microbial growth rate on net methylmercury production by anaerobic mixed cultures. 
  • Relaxation spectra of aspartate transcarbamylase. Interaction of the native enzyme with cytidine 5'-triphosphate. 
  • Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Review of contaminant levels and effects in shorebirds: Knowledge gaps and conservation priorities. 
  • River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Should a coal-fired power plant be replaced or retrofitted? 
  • Simian virus 40 transcriptional complexes incorporate mercurated nucleotides into RNA in vitro. 
  • Similarities between inorganic sulfide and the strong Hg(II)-complexing ligands in municipal wastewater effluent. 
  • Spatial, Temporal, and Dietary Variables Associated with Elevated Mercury Exposure in Peruvian Riverine Communities Upstream and Downstream of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining. 
  • Speciation and bioaccessibility of mercury in adobe bricks and dirt floors in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Speciation of Mercury in Selected Areas of the Petroleum Value Chain. 
  • Strong hg(II) complexation in municipal wastewater effluent and surface waters. 
  • The control of mercury vapor using biotrickling filters. 
  • The crystal structure of bovine Cu2+,Zn2+ superoxide dismutase at 5.5-A resolution. 
  • The effect of zinc and other divalent cations on the structure and function of human alpha 2-macroglobulin. 
  • The geography of mercury and PCBs in North Carolina's local seafood. 
  • The relationship of Mo, molybdopterin, and the cyanolyzable sulfur in the Mo cofactor. 
  • Total reconstitution of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase. 
  • Toxicological effects of methylmercury on walleye (Sander vitreus) and perch (Perca flavescens) from lakes of the boreal forest. 
  • Use of sodium borohydride for determination of total mercury in urine by atomic absorption spectrometry. 
  • Utility of Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers for Predicting Mercury Methylation Potential and Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Wetlands. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering