Novel biomarkers of mercury-induced autoimmune dysfunction: A cross-sectional study in Amazonian Brazil

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Mercury 100%
• Autoantibodies 81%
• Brazil 80%
• Cross-Sectional Studies 57%
• Biomarkers 57%
• Miners 38%
• Serum 30%
• Gold 30%
• Tumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 13 15%
• signal peptide peptidase 13%
• glutathione S-transferase alpha 11%
• Proteins 10%
• Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay 10%
• Protein Array Analysis 9%
• Macrophage Activation 8%
• Tretinoin 7%
• Proteomics 6%
• Interferons 6%
• Multiple Sclerosis 6%
• Autoimmune Diseases 6%
• Epidemiologic Studies 6%
• Rheumatoid Arthritis 6%
• Antioxidants 5%
• Anti-Inflammatory Agents 5%
• Oxidative Stress 5%
• Odds Ratio 4%
• Cytokines 4%
• T-Lymphocytes 4%
• Confidence Intervals 4%
• Antibodies 4%
• Population 2%

Chemical Compounds

• Immunotoxicity 87%
• Biological Marker 79%
• Mining 40%
• Protein 36%
• Immunotoxic 30%
• Environmental Contaminant 23%
• Retinoic Acid 23%
• Neurotoxicity 22%
• Microarrays 19%
• Oxidative Stress 17%
• Antiinflammatory 16%
• Antioxidant Agent 13%
• Ligand 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biomarker 83%
• mercury 71%
• serum 64%
• gold 24%
• exposure 16%
• neurotoxicity 10%
• emerald 10%
• immune response 10%
• necrosis 9%
• oxidative stress 8%
• antioxidant 7%
• antibody 7%
• ligand 7%
• tumor 7%
• peptide 7%
• confidence interval 7%
• screening 6%
• regulation 5%
• acid 4%
• cell 4%
• pollutant 4%
• project 3%
• test 2%
• analysis 1%
• effect 1%