Mercury

A silver metallic element that exists as a liquid at room temperature. It has the atomic symbol Hg (from hydrargyrum, liquid silver), atomic number 80, and atomic weight 200.59. Mercury is used in many industrial applications and its salts have been employed therapeutically as purgatives, antisyphilitics, disinfectants, and astringents. It can be absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes which leads to MERCURY POISONING. Because of its toxicity, the clinical use of mercury and mercurials is diminishing.

Networked: 2775 relevant articles (46 outcomes, 281 trials/studies)

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Experts

1.	Guzzi, Gianpaolo: 17 articles (01/2015 - 06/2004)
2.	Geier, David A: 16 articles (10/2014 - 03/2004)
3.	Geier, Mark R: 16 articles (10/2014 - 03/2004)
4.	Pigatto, Paolo D: 14 articles (01/2013 - 06/2004)
5.	Kern, Janet K: 10 articles (10/2014 - 04/2007)
6.	Silbergeld, Ellen K: 8 articles (01/2015 - 09/2002)
7.	McCabe, Michael J: 8 articles (01/2015 - 07/2003)
8.	Rosenspire, Allen J: 7 articles (01/2014 - 07/2003)
9.	Aschner, Michael: 7 articles (12/2011 - 10/2003)
10.	Dórea, José G: 6 articles (01/2014 - 02/2005)

Related Diseases

1.	Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) 01/01/2014 - "Office blood pressure measurement using mercury sphygmomanometer is the gold standard for making diagnoses of hypertension, evaluation of cardiovascular risk and estimation of obtained control of treated hypertensives. " 01/01/2010 - "The achieved systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) wrist-cuff readings were compared to the mercury device and the frequencies of the readings within 5, 10, and 15 mmHg of the gold standard were computed and compared with the British Hypertension Society (BHS) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) protocols. " 03/01/2015 - "Using a modified British Hypertension Society (BHS) Protocol, nine sequential BP recordings were taken alternating between the mercury sphygmomanometer and the study device. " 01/01/2015 - "Comparison of the BPLab® sphygmomanometer for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring with mercury sphygmomanometry in pregnant women: validation study according to the British Hypertension Society protocol." 05/01/2013 - "Few studies have examined the association between hypertension and mercury exposure in the general population. "
2.	Poisoning 04/01/2014 - "Only a small decrease in mercury oxidation was observed in the presence of 1200 ppm SO2, which proved that the addition of Ce helped resist SO2 poisoning. " 01/01/1980 - "An opportunity to study the effects of methylmercury poisoning in humans was provided by the large outbreak in Iraq in 1971-2. In adults, poisoning resulted from the ingestion of home-made bread prepared from methylmercury-treated seed grain and there was a highly significant correlation between the amount of bread ingested and blood mercury levels. " 01/01/1978 - "[Morphological and histochemical studies of rat liver in acute and chronic methyl mercury compound poisoning]." 01/01/1969 - "Electron microscopical study of experimentally induced poisoning due to organic mercury compound. " 09/01/2015 - "Detection of Mercury in Human Organs and Hair in a Case of a Homicidal Poisoning of a Woman Autopsied 6 Years After Death."
3.	Infection 01/01/2015 - "We analyzed nestling wading birds (n = 171) of varying size and trophic position from the southeastern US, and a smaller sample (n = 23) of older, free-ranging birds, to look for potential interrelationships between infection by hematozoa and mercury (Hg) uptake. " 01/01/2015 - "Testing for associations between hematozoa infection and mercury in wading bird nestlings." 06/01/2012 - "Effect of Acanthocephalus lucii infection on total mercury concentrations in muscle and gonads of fish host (Perca fluviatilis)." 05/01/2011 - "Arabic physicians used mercury to treat skin infections, urinary infections and urethral stones. " 02/01/2008 - "Mercury (Hg) has been shown to have immunotoxic effects and to influence the severity of infection. "
4.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 01/01/2015 - "The Weibull distribution is demonstrated in preference to the lognormal and Pareto I for illness severities versus (a) toxicokinetic models, (b) biologically-based network models, (c) scholastic and psychological test score data for children with prenatal mercury exposure, and (d) time-to-tumor data of the ED01 study." 04/01/2011 - "Data were collected prospectively on all patients included in the MERCURY study who were staged as MRI-defined "good" prognosis tumors. " 05/01/2007 - "This study provides additional evidence of the absence of an increased risk of cancer in workers exposed to inorganic mercury." 04/01/2007 - "Therefore, MR and histopathologic assessments of tumor spread were considered equivalent to within 0.5 mm. Demonstration of accurate measurement of the depth of extramural tumor spread in the MERCURY Study enabled accurate preoperative prognostication." 01/01/1972 - "[Experimental studies on the tumor uptake of mercury isotope labeled compounds]."
5.	Body Weight (Weight, Body) 01/01/1980 - "The kinetics of blood deposition and clearance of methylmercury were measured in volunteers given a single meal of fish containing 18 to 22 microgram mercury/kg body weight. " 04/01/2007 - "The mean and median hair mercury levels for the subjects under study were found to be lower than the value of 1 microg/g, corresponding to the reference dose of 0.1 microg of methylmercury per kilogram body weight set by the U.S. " 03/01/2001 - "Total daily mercury consumption per kilogram body weight per day was calculated for each person included in the study. " 08/01/1998 - "Our study of individuals who have been eating mercury contaminated fish steadily for many years suggests that a daily mercury intake of only 0.3 to 0.7 mg/kg body weight may be sufficient to inhibit spermatogenesis in some Hong Kong males. " 11/01/1995 - "The arithmetic mean of the total mercury concentration in hair was 1.81 mg/kg of body weight for the study group (standard deviation [SD] 1.52) and 0.42 mg/kg for the control group (SD 0.15)--a statistically significant difference (P < 0.01). "

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