Developmental Changes in the Biliary Excretion of Methylmercury and Glutathione
- 2 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 216 (4541) , 61-63
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7063871
Abstract
The long half-time for methylmercury in the neonatal rats is explained by the neonatal liver's inability to secrete the toxin into bile, which in adults is the main route of elimination. The ability to secrete mercury into bile develops between 2 and 4 weeks of age and is correlated with the increasing ability of the developing liver to secrete glutathione into bile.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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