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Chronic Effects of Mercury on Organisms

by
I.M. Trakhtenberg

Translated from the Russian Language and reproduced in limited quantities by the Geographic Health Studies Program of the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences

1974

U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 74-473

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402

Stock Number 1753-00023


NOTE: These are selective notes... mainly conclusion.
Please refer to the original for scientific research.


  1. Introduction.


    2.
  2. Historical development.


    3.
  3. General survey of mercury and its distribution in the environment.


    4.
  4. Some geochemical data on the content of mercury in objects in the environment.


    5.
  5. Toxicodynamics of mercury and its compounds: Entry route of mercury into the body.


    6.
  6. Excretion of mercury from the body.


    7.
  7. Toxic doses and concentrations.


    8.
  8. Mercury in Modern Urban Conditions.


    9.
  9. Mercury in school classrooms.


    10.
  10. Problems of secondary contamination by mercury of the air of production sites.


  11. The micromercurialism phenomenon in mercury handlers.


    12.
  12. Modeling mercurialism and its manifestations under the effect of various concentrations of mercury.


    13.
  13. Proteinemic shifts in experimental mercurialism.


    14.
  14. The effect of mercury on conditioned reflex activity.


    15.
  15. Functional shifts in the hypophyseal adrenocortical system and the thyroid gland under the infuence of mercury.


    16.
  16. Cardiotoxic effects of mercury.


    17.
  17. Changes in indices of immunobiological reactivity under the influence of low mercury concentrations.


    18.
  18. Morphological changes in organs and tissues affected by mercury.


    19.
  19. Basic principles of preventing effects of mercury on the organism.
  20. In Place of a conclusion.




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