Mercury: god of Th2 cells?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Mercury poisoning-associated membranous nephropathy and autoimmune encephalitis.BMC nephrology · 2025
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2. Transgenic merA and merB expression reduces mercury contamination in vegetables and grains grown in mercury-contaminated soil.Plant cell reports · 2020
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3. Mercury-induced inflammation and autoimmunity.Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects · 2019
   Review
4. Mercury pollution in vegetables, grains and soils from areas surrounding coal-fired power plants.Scientific reports · 2017
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5. Mercury exposure as a model for deviation of cytokine responses in experimental Lyme arthritis: HgCl2 treatment decreases T helper cell type 1-like responses and arthritis severity but delays eradication of Borrelia burgdorferi in C3H/HeN mice.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2007
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6. Murine metal-induced systemic autoimmunity: baseline and stimulated cytokine mRNA expression in genetically susceptible and resistant strains.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2001
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7. Analysis of mercury-induced immune activation in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2001
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8. Metals and kidney autoimmunity.Environmental health perspectives · 1999
   Review
9. Mechanism of mercury-induced autoimmunity: both T helper 1- and T helper 2-type responses are involved.Immunology · 1999
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10. Pretreatment of lymphocytes with mercury in vitro induces a response in T cells from genetically determined low-responders and a shift of the interleukin profile.Immunology · 1997
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and IL-4 expressed during mercury-induced membranous nephropathy are toxic for cultured podocytes.1995

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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