ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2025
Mercury Exposure and Health Effects: What Do We Really Know?
Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of diseases caused by mercury overexposure: a systematic review of case reports and case series.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Human Mercury Biomonitoring Under the Minamata Convention: Blood, Urine, Hair, and Tissue Biomarkers (2000-2026).Biological trace element research · 2026Review
- Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas12a-based biosensors for heavy metal analysis: a review of signal readout strategies and analytical performance.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Review
- Physicochemical Quality and Chemical Safety of Commercial Wet Cat Food: Composition, Oxidation, Biogenic Amines, and Trace Elements.Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition · 2026Article
- Trace Elements Dyshomeostasis and Toxic Metals Neurotoxicity in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Biological trace element research · 2026Review
- Toxic Trace Element Levels in Maternal and Cord Blood Worldwide and Their Impact on Pregnancy: A Narrative Review.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Review
- The effects of nanoplastics on toxicity of metals and metal nanoparticles: molecular mechanisms and health effects.Archives of toxicology · 2026Review
- A green emitting phenanthroimidazolate anionic room temperature ionic liquid and its low-dimensional materials for ultrasensitive detection of HgPhotochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026Article
- Mercury Levels in the Tissues of Mediterranean Mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) at two Marine Sites along the Algerian Coast.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
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- Formation and preliminary characterization of mercury-reactive immunoglobulin Y antibodies in laying hens using HgClVeterinary world · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Toxic Elements in Commercial Dried Mushrooms from the Polish Market: Exposure Assessment and Health Risk Characterization.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Genetic Polymorphisms and Antioxidant Reactions in Prostate Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Alkaline Decomposition Kinetics in Ca(OH)Toxics · 2026Article
- Metallomic Analysis of Vitreous Humor of the Human Eye-A Post-Mortem Multielemental Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Ecological Impacts of Mining in the Amazon: Thematic Trends and Research Gaps.Environmental management · 2026Article
- Metal Pollution in the Air and Its Effects on Vulnerable Populations: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Airborne metals and malignant pleural effusions: the role of oxidative stress.Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Review
- Correlation between gold and mercury in human blood among individuals in northwestern Tanzania.Academia global and public health · 2026Article
- Achieving Steroid-Sparing Remission in Refractory Pyoderma Gangrenosum With an Integrative Meta-Therapeutic System Based on Traditionally Engineered Nanomercury Sulfide: A Case Series.Case reports in dermatological medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Mercury is widely used in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Meanwhile, according to the World Health Organization, it has been ranked as one of the ten most hazardous substances in the world, with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ranking it third. It has no known positive functionality in the human body, and even at low concentrations, it can have harmful long-term health effects, seriously affecting the healthcare system as well as posing a serious public health threat. This review focuses on the health effects of mercury and its major sources in the environment. We highlight its major toxic role in almost every possible aspect. Mercury and its forms, even in the smallest doses, cause numerous disorders to the body, including to the nervous system, the respiratory system, and the cardiovascular system. It can cause disorders such as various cancers; endothelial dysfunction; gastric and vascular disorders; liver, kidney, and brain damage; hormonal imbalances, miscarriages, and reproductive disorders; skin lesions; vision damage; and even death. The fact of such widespread use as well as its toxicity to the human body prompts further and in-depth research in populations of both low and moderate exposure. The constant controlling and monitoring of mercury use is a serious public health problem, requiring urgent attention and attentiveness from the governments of all countries and, in the long run, a rapid and concerted response. Thus, it is important to analyze in depth the impact of this highly toxic metal on the human body and to prepare the most precisely targeted public health interventions among all decision- and policy-makers.
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