Methylmercury and Neurotoxicity

1. Epidemiological Update of Methylmercury and Minamata Disease
Noriyuki Hachiya

2. Epidemiological Evidence on Methylmercury Neurotoxicity
Jordi Julvez, Takashi Yorifuji, Anna L. Choi, Philippe Grandjean

3. The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury and Maternal Nutritional Status on Child Development: Findings from the Seychelles Child Development Study
Edwin Wijngaarden, Gary J. Myers, Conrad F. Shamlaye, J. J. Strain, Philip W. Davidson

4. Methylmercury and Fish Nutrients in Experimental Models
M. Christopher Newland

5. Mercury-Dependent Inhibition of Selenoenzymes and Mercury Toxicity
Nicholas V. C. Ralston, Alexander Azenkeng, Laura J. Raymond

6. Redox State in Mediating Methylmercury Neurotoxicity
Marcelo Farina, Michael Aschner, João B. T. Rocha

7. The Role of Thyroid Modulation by Methylmercury in Developmental Neurotoxicity
Kouki Mori, Katsumi Yoshida

8. Effects of Developmental Methylmercury Exposure on Nervous System Function in Monkeys
Deborah C. Rice

9. Behavioural Effects of Exposure to Methylmercury During Early Development
Natalia Onishchenko, Stefan Spulber, Sandra Ceccatelli

10. Epigenetics of Environmental Contaminants
Natalia Onishchenko, Nina N. Karpova, Eero Castrén

11. Methylmercury Neurotoxicity: A Synopsis of In Vitro Effects
Lucio G. Costa, Gennaro Giordano

12. Effects of Methylmercury on Cellular Signal Transduction Systems
Fusako Usuki, Masatake Fujimura

13. Methylmercury Neurotoxicity: Why Are some Cells more Vulnerable than Others?
Parvinder Kaur, Michael Aschner, Tore Syversen

14. In Vitro Models for Methylmercury Neurotoxicity: Effects on Glutamatergic Cerebellar Granule Neurons
Cristina Suñol, Eduard Rodríguez-Farré

15. Methylmercury and Glia Cells
Yin Zhaobao, Marcelo Farina, João B. T. Rocha, Parvinder Kaur, Tore Syversen, Michael Aschner

16. Methylmercury and Neural Stem Cells
Karin Edoff, Sandra Ceccatelli

17. Contributions of the Drosophila Model to Understanding Methylmercury Effects on Development
Matthew D. Rand

18.
Caenorhabditis elegans as a Predictive Model for Methylmercury-Induced Neurotoxicity
Kirsten J. Helmcke, Michael Aschner

19. Zebrafish as a Model for Methylmercury Neurotoxicity
Daniel N. Weber, Rebekah H. Klingler, Michael J. Carvan

20. Piscivorous Mammalian Wildlife as Sentinels of Methylmercury Exposure and Neurotoxicity in Humans
Niladri Basu

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Neurochemistry, Pharmacology/Toxicology