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  • Toxicology
  • Environmental Health
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Biological system responses to toxic chemicals often depend on both exposure intensity and duration.
  • Time-dependent effects can result from toxicant accumulation or functional damage accumulation.
  • Existing measures and functions for describing exposure-duration dependence are reviewed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and compare functions describing toxic chemical exposure-duration dependence.
  • To analyze methylmercury neurotoxicity data in non-human primates.
  • To develop an exposure-response relationship for methylmercury neurotoxicity.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewed various functions used to describe exposure-duration relationships.
  • Fitted several exposure functions to methylmercury neurotoxicity data in monkeys.
  • Utilized probit analysis to establish an exposure-response relationship using the most appropriate function.

Main Results:

  • The apparent threshold for neurotoxicity after 100-day methylmercury exposure was 3-5 times higher than for chronic exposure.
  • An exposure-response relationship was developed using probit analysis.
  • An alternative data analysis procedure was also investigated.

Conclusions:

  • The duration of toxic chemical exposure is a critical factor in determining biological effects.
  • Estimated chronic exposure blood concentration threshold for methylmercury in humans is 40-170 ppb.
  • This estimated threshold suggests potential neurological damage in humans exposed below currently accepted levels.