I Ate Gold To Prove a Point

Why are some heavy metals deadly while others keep us alive?

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Iron and folate in fortified cereals
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Zinc
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Methylmercury, an environmental electrophile capable of activation and disruption of the Akt/CREB/Bcl-2 signal transduction pathway in SH-SY5Y cells
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Antioxidants Mediate Both Iron Homeostasis and Oxidative Stress
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Mercury in the environment
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A Tribute to Karen Wetterhahn
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/about-us/a-tribute-to-karen-wetterhahn/

Mercury Factsheet
https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Mercury_FactSheet.html

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
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Environmental Mercury and Its Toxic Effects
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