Publication | Closed Access
Carbon-Mercury Bond Cleavage in Blood of Rats Fed Methyl Mercuric Chloride
15
Citations
0
References
1974
Year
Methyl Mercuric ChlorideBiochemistryMedicineMercury BiogeochemistryPhysiologyToxicologyClinical ToxicologyToxicological AspectClinical ChemistryBlood FractionMetabolismDetermine BreakageExperimental ToxicologyCarbon-mercury Bond CleavageMercury ChemistryOxidative Stress
Methyl mercuric chloride labeled with 14C or 203Hg or both were forcefed to rats in order to quantitatively determine breakage of the carbon–mercury bond in different fractions of blood. Based on the hypothesis that a change in the ratio of 14C to 203Hg radioactivities in the tissue from that in the compound fed to rats would indicate breakage, values ranging from 5.1% to 10.6% were observed depending upon the blood fraction studied.