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The impact of different exposure to mercury on selenium status in the context of mercury - selenium interaction as a potential detoxification mechanism

2013/11/B/NZ7/04934

Keywords:

mercury selenium gene expression oxidative stress nephrotoxicity

Descriptors:

  • NZ7_2: Environment and health risks
  • NZ7_15: Toxicology

Panel:

NZ7 - Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: public health, epidemiology, environmental health risks and occupational medicine, medical ethics, drug discovery and therapies, pharmacology

Host institution :

Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. prof. dr. med. Jerzego Nofera

woj. łódzkie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Wojciech Wąsowicz 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 10

Call: OPUS 6 - announced on 2013-09-16

Amount awarded: 975 348 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-08-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-11

Project duration:: 41 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Wirówka laboratoryjna szybkoobrotowa z chłodzeniem.
  2. Zasilacz UPS z baterią zewnętrzną.
  3. Mineralizator rtęci (240 000 PLN)
  4. Lodówko-zamrażarki -20 C.
  5. Reduktor dwustopniowy do tlenu.
  6. Komputer i drukarka (7 000 PLN)

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Assessment of Mercury Intake from Fish Meals Based on Intervention Research in the Polish Subpopulation
    Authors:
    Renata Kuras, Beata Janasik, Magdalena Stanislawska, Lucyna Kozlowska, Wojciech Wasowicz
    Academic press:
    Biological Trace Element Research (rok: 2017, tom: 179(1), strony: 23-31), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s12011-017-0939-9 - link to the publication
  2. Biomarkers of selenium status and antioxidant effect in workers occupationally exposed to mercury
    Authors:
    Renata Kuras, Edyta Reszka, Edyta Wieczorek, Ewa Jablonska, Jolanta Gromadzinska, Beata Malachowska, Lucyna Kozlowska, Magdalena Stanislawska, Beata Janasik, Wojciech Wasowicz
    Academic press:
    Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology (rok: 2018, tom: 49, strony: 43-50), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jtemb.2018.04.032 - link to the publication
  3. Environmental mercury exposure and selenium-associated biomarkers of antioxidant status at molecular and biochemical level. A short-term intervention study
    Authors:
    Renata Kuras, Lucyna Kozlowska, Edyta Reszka, Edyta Wieczorek, Ewa Jablonska, Jolanta Gromadzinska, Magdalena Stanislawska, Beata Janasik, Wojciech Wasowicz
    Academic press:
    Food and Chemical Toxicology (rok: 2019, tom: 130, strony: 187-198), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.fct.2019.04.056 - link to the publication
  4. Revision of the reciprocal action of mercury and selenium
    Authors:
    Renata Kuras, Beata Janasik, Magdalena Stanislawska, Wojciech Wasowicz
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health (rok: 2018, tom: 31(5), strony: 575-592), Wydawca: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.13075/ijomeh.1896.01278 - link to the publication