The interaction of methylmercury with lysosomes from rat liver
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The interactions of methylmercury with rat liver lysosomes were investigated. The results indicate that methylmercury enhances the proton permeability in membranes. Since this uncoupling mechanism necessarily implies the transport of a charged ion (in this case CH3Hg ) through the membrane, this fact can help to explain why a preferential target of methylmercury are nerve cells, whose plasma membrane potential has the highest value, when compared with other cells. # 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002