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Methylmercury promotes the growth and progression of breast cancer in danio rerio embryos.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Estrogen is a female sex hormone that is important in the development of secondary sex characteristics in females and promotes breast cancer growth and metastasis of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer cells. ... -
The effects of methylmercury on breast cancer progression in zebrafish
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)Breast cancer is defined as a group of malignant cells that originate in the breast and have the potential to spread to distant sites in the body, most commonly the liver, lungs, bones and brain. Many factors increase the ... -
Sulfur deposition on the Greenland ice sheet : sources and implications of MSA and sulfate since 1900.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)Ice cores contain records of both local and global changes to atmospheric chemistry. Glaciochemical data from three newly acquired ice cores from the western portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) were used to create ... -
The effect of n-acetylcysteine on methylmercury treated breast cancer cells.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)In the absence of estrogen, metalloestrogens can activate the estrogen receptor and cause breast cancer proliferation in estrogen receptor-positive cells. Methylmercury (MeHg) is a metalloestrogen that is often consumed ... -
Method development for the spectrophotometric analysis of arsenic in aqueous media.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2015)The use of trypan blue was explored as a detection and quantification method for As(III). This procedure represents an improvement of the method described by Narayana et al. (2006) by using the shift in absorbance wavelength ...
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