OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1977 · 21 citations · 0 references
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This study with cats not only indicates that dietary selenium is effective in the reduction of methyl mercury toxicity, but also suggests that the mercury/selenium ratio in food or animal tissues, particularly the brain, may be a more accurate references index than the mercury level alone in relation to mercury toxicity. Moreover, since many marine organisms tend to accumulate selenium with mercury in an approximately 1:1 ratio, it becomes important to be aware of the fact that mercury in marine fish may have a less toxic potential than mercury in fish from polluted fresh water containing a similar amount of mercury.