Organic mercury is absorbed primarily in the gastrointestinal tract, followed by distribution throughout the body via the bloodstream. Organic mercury forms a complex with free cysteine and the cysteine and sulfhydryl groups on proteins such as hemoglobin (Hgb). These complexes function to mimic methionine and, as a result, are transported throughout the body. This includes travel across the blood-brain barrier and across the placenta.
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神经毒素 - 感觉运动
Neurotoxin - Sensorimotor
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The hepatobiliary excretion of mersayl was studied in the isolated perfused rat liver and in isolated rat liver plasma membrane vesicles. In the isolated perfused liver, mersalyl was found to be immediately absorbed by the perfusion medium and concentratively excreted into bile. Uptake is characterized by saturation kinetics (S)0.5 = 20 microM, Vmax = 117 nmoles/min/g liver, cooperatively of mersalyl binding sites, stimulation by extracellular sodium and temperature dependence. Uptake of mersalyl into basolateral membrane vesicles also demonstrates characteristics of a carrier-mediated transport, dependence on extravesicular sodium, cooperativity of mersalyl binding sites, temperature dependence and trans-stimulation by intravesicular non-radioactive mersalyl. Uptake was found to be inhibited by alpha-naphthylacetic acid and mercapto group reagents, suggesting involvement of mercapto groups on the carrier and a binding site for carboxylic anions. Data from the isolated perfused liver and from isolated basolateral vesicles suggest that mersalyl uptake into the liver is carrier mediated. Uptake mechanism and driving forces appear analogous to those for the uptake of chemically related compounds such as taurocholic acid. It is, therefore, speculated that mersalyl may be transported by carrier molecules which accept various chemically unrelated compounds.