Methylmercury Compounds

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Critical Time for Mercury Science to Inform Global Policy. 
  • Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. 
  • Benthic and pelagic pathways of methylmercury bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs of the northeast United States. 
  • Biochemical and functional alterations in renal and cardiac development resulting from neonatal methylmercury treatment. 
  • Biochemical mechanisms of developmental neurotoxicity of methylmercury. 
  • Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes. 
  • Development of adrenergic receptor binding sites in brain regions of the neonatal rat: effects of prenatal or postnatal exposure to methylmercury. 
  • Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Persistent Uncertainties Regarding Environmental Selenium-Mercury Interactions. 
  • Early biochemical detection of adverse effects of a neurobehavioral teratogen: influence of prenatal methylmercury exposure on ornithine decarboxylase in brain and other tissues of fetal and neonatal rat. 
  • 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. 
  • Effects of neonatal methylmercury exposure on adrenergic receptor binding sites in peripheral tissues of the developing rat. 
  • Effects of neonatal methylmercury exposure on development of nucleic acids and proteins in rat brain: regional specificity. 
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and sediment organic carbon on methylmercury bioaccumulation in an estuarine amphipod. 
  • 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. 2. Effect of coal ash on methylmercury in historically contaminated river sediments. 
  • Exposure to methylmercury in utero: effects on biochemical development of catecholamine neurotransmitter systems. 
  • Functional consequences of prenatal methylmercury exposure: effects on renal and hepatic responses to trophic stimuli and on renal excretory mechanisms. 
  • Hair Mercury Level is Associated with Anemia and Micronutrient Status in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Impacts of coal ash on methylmercury production and the methylating microbial community in anaerobic sediment slurries. 
  • Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms. 
  • Mechanisms regulating mercury bioavailability for methylating microorganisms in the aquatic environment: a critical review. 
  • Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories. 
  • Metallothionein in the central nervous system: Roles in protection, regeneration and cognition. 
  • Methylation of mercury by bacteria exposed to dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides 
  • Neonatal methylmercury poisoning in the rat: effects on development of central catecholamine neurotransmitter systems. 
  • Neonatal methylmercury poisoning in the rat: effects on development of peripheral sympathetic nervous system. Neuronal participation in methylmercury-induced cardiac and renal overgrowth. 
  • Net methylation of mercury in estuarine sediment microcosms amended with dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides. 
  • On the occurrence of cytochrome P-450 and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity in rat brain. 
  • Organ specificity of neonatal methyl mercury hydroxide poisoning in the rat: effects of ornithine decarboxylase activity in developing tissues. 
  • Paradoxical effects of methylmercury on the kinetics of cytochrome c oxidase. 
  • Postnatal methyl mercury exposure: effects on ontogeny of renal and hepatic ornithine decarboxylase responses to trophic stimuli. 
  • Prenatal exposure to methylmercury alters development of adrenergic receptor binding sites in peripheral sympathetic target tissues. 
  • Probucol increases glutathione peroxidase-1 activity and displays long-lasting protection against methylmercury toxicity in cerebellar granule cells. 
  • 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. 
  • Toxicological effects of methylmercury on walleye (Sander vitreus) and perch (Perca flavescens) from lakes of the boreal forest. 
  • 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