ethyl mercury

degradation product of thimersol.
See also: thimerosal.

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Important human exposure sources are mercury vapors inhaled after release from dental amalgam, methyl mercury (MeHg) from fish and ethyl mercury (EtHg) present in vaccines and some pharmaceutical products (Barregard et al., 2011; Risher et al., 2002; Clarkson and Magos, 2006; Ishitobi et al., 2010).

Effect of Inorganic Mercury on Drug Metabolizing Enzymes of Promethazine-Pretreated and Phenobarbitone-Pretreated Male Rabbit

The kind found in vaccines is ethyl mercury, and this is water-soluble and rapidly metabolized in the body so they do not accumulate, he said.

Parents must weigh the benefits and risks of vaccines

Thimerosol is an antiseptic containing 49.5% ethyl mercury that has been used for years as a preservative in many infant vaccines and in flu vaccines.

Vitamin D and Autism

The ethyl mercury is from sodium ethylmercyrithosalicylate (thimerosal) used in vaccines and eye drops as preservative.

Mercury toxicity--a public health concern

No wonder the concentration of ethyl mercury increase with trophic level and age.

TOXICITY OF MERCURY IN DIFFERENT SAMPLES (WATER AND SOILS) AND ITS EXPOSURE IN PAKISTAN

Thimerosal contains ethyl mercury, which is different from the methyl mercury that we all remember as the silvery liquid substance found in old thermometers.

It's past time to bury the idea of a vaccine-autism link

A typical growth, abnormal mitosis and polyploidy induced by ethyl mercury chloride.

Differential tolerance behaviour of safflower accessions to some heavy metals

Thimerosal contains a small amount of ethyl mercury.

Swine flu fears; Health care workers say vaccine is safe

Thimerosal, the vaccine preservative, contains ethyl mercury, and most of the toxicological data is on methyl mercury.

In defense of vaccines--Part I of II

Compared with the blood half-life of about 45 days associated with methylmercury from fish consumption, the half-life of intramuscular ethyl mercury from thimerosal in vaccines in infants is substantially shorter, at a mean of 3.7 days with a return to baseline by 30 days post vaccination (Pediatrics 2008;121:e208-14).

No vaccine-autism link in feds' ruling

Infants excrete the ethyl mercury used in thimerosal-containing vaccines too quickly for the mercury to build up in their systems, according to study results.

Vaccine mercury rapidly exits infants' systems

Thimerosal is a vaccine preservative, and is partially composed of ethyl mercury. In 1999, there was a decision to reduce or eliminate thimerosal from pediatric vaccines manufactured for the U.S.