Sentences with phrase «ethyl mercury»
They further stated that mercury in the tissues and blood following Thimerosal treatment is predominantly found as inorganic mercury, but a considerable amount of ethyl mercury is also found in the liver and brain.
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Exposure to ethyl mercury is said to be safer than exposure to methyl mercury because the blood half - life of intramuscular ethyl mercury from Thimerosal in vaccines in infants has been found to be substantially shorter than that of oral methyl mercury in adults [135].
It is also important to note that once the mercury from Thimerosal enters the brain, some of it remains in the form of ethyl mercury, and some is found as methyl mercury and inorganic mercury.
The form of mercury in thimerosal — an organic compound called ethyl mercury — is the least studied of all mercury's incarnations.
Experts even disagree about whether ethyl mercury can cross the blood - brain barrier.
At the time there was abundant evidence that methyl mercury was toxic, but little evidence on ethyl mercury.
It highlighted the fact that while methyl mercury builds up in the body, ethyl mercury is excreted rapidly.
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I transitioned into neurochemistry and currently work on ethyl - mercury neurotoxicity and novel strategies for treating glioma and other cancers.