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WE wish to suggest one principle that may be valuable in the treatment of methyl mercury poisoning—the notion that continuous oral administration of indigestible unabsorbable SH-compounds such as reduced hair powder may accelerate the elimination of methyl mercury from mice.
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TAKAHASHI, H., HIRAYAMA, K. Accelerated Elimination of Methyl Mercury from Animals. Nature 232, 201–202 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232201a0
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