Concepedia

Mercury pollution and childhood in Amazon riverside villages

Maria Conceição Nascimento Pinheiro, Maria Elena Crespo‐López, José Luís Fernandes Vieira, Teiichi Oikawa, G.A. Guimarães, Clarisse Araújo, Walter Wanderley Amoras, Anderson Manoel Herculano, José Luíz Martins do Nascimento, Luiz Carlos L. Silveira

Environment International · 2006 · 78 citations · 23 references

DOIFull text

Open access

Concepts

References

23

Neurotoxic Effects of Low-Level Methylmercury Contamination in the Amazonian Basin

Jean Lebel, Donna Mergler, Fernando J.P. Branches et al. · Environmental Research · 1998 · 322 citations

, , +9

Methylmercury neurotoxicity in Amazonian children downstream from gold mining.

Philippe Grandjean, Roberta F. White, Anne Bjerg Nielsen et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives · 1999 · 309 citations · Full text

, , +20

Evidence of early nervous system dysfunction in Amazonian populations exposed to low-levels of methylmercury.

Jean Lebel, Donna Mergler, Marc Lucotte et al. · PubMed · 1996 · 217 citations

Methylmercury pollution in the Amazon, Brazil

Hirokatsu Akagi, Olaf Malm, Yoshihide Kinjo et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 1995 · 197 citations

, , +7

Hair Mercury Speciation as a Function of Gender, Age, and Body Mass Index in Inhabitants of the Negro River Basin, Amazon, Brazil

A. C. Barbosa · Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology · 2001 · 162 citations

, , +5