[Methylmercury toxicity in insect: detection of mercury in lysosomes using electron microprobe].
C R Seances Acad Sci D, 1979/3/05;288(9):847-9.
Ballan-Dufrançais C, Jeantet AY, Quintana C
PMID: 111870
Abstract
Intoxication of Blattella by methylmercury leads to a storage of the ingested metal within the lysosomes of ileum. Mercury is always found associated with zinc, sulphur and copper. Lysosome, therefore, intervenes in a detoxication process in Insects which have been exposed to organic mercury. It is suggested that mercury might be trapped by metallothionein.
MeSH terms
Animals; Copper; Histocytochemistry; Ileum; Inactivation, Metabolic; Insecta; Lysosomes; Metallothionein; Methylmercury Compounds; Sulfur; Zinc
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