Putting findings from the Seychelles Child Development Study into perspective: The importance of a historical special issue of the Seychelles Medical and Dental Journal.

P W Davidson, E van Wijngaarden, C Shamlaye, J J Strain, G J Myers

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Review in Neurotoxicology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Marine Capture Fisheries from Western Indian Ocean: An Excellent Source of Proteins and Essential Amino Acids.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Methylmercury-Induced Metabolic Alterations inToxics · 2021
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P W DavidsonUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United States.

E van WijngaardenUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United States. Electronic address: edwin_van_wijngaarden@urmc.rochester.edu.

C ShamlayeUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United States.

J J StrainUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United States.

G J MyersUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United States.

Funding

TOXICITY OF METHYL MERCURY IN A FISH EATING POPULATIONR01ES010219 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI VAN WIJNGAARDEN, EDWIN · 2000 to 2019

$11.8M

NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010219

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We are pleased to introduce this special issue of Neurotoxicology. It reproduces Volume 7, Number 1 of the Seychelles Medical and Dental Journal (SMDJ), initially published in November 2004. Publication of the SMDJ was discontinued in 2005 and the manuscripts it published are no longer accessible to the scientific community. The papers in this special issue lay the background for the Seychelles Child Development Study (SCDS) and provide valuable data on the MeHg exposures that occurred at Niigata, Japan. They are relevant to the ongoing debate over whether the consumption of fish and consequently low-level exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) is a risk to human health.

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AnimalsChildChild DevelopmentEnvironmental ExposureFemaleFishesFood ContaminationHumansMethylmercury CompoundsPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsSeychellesMethylmercury CompoundsChild developmentEpidemiologyFish consumptionMethylmercurySeychelles

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PMID31706981

DOI10.1016/j.neuro.2019.10.010

PMCPMC6980718

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