Mercury in Facial NERVES!!

[Guest guest]

Forwarded by from http://www.medscape.com.

Comment: This just shows that mercury can

collect in the trigeminal(facial) ganglia(nerve group).

What it does there, who knows, but it might not be very good!!

I wonder if further study will

show a contribution to or correlation between this

and TMJ(jaw)pain.

Rod

UI - 94319128

TI - Mercury deposits in neurons of the trigeminal ganglia after insertion of

dental amalgam in rats.

SO - Biometals 1994 Jul;7(3):261-3

TA - Biometals

VI - 7

IP - 3

PG - 261-3

DP - 1994

AU - Arvidson B

AU - Arvidsson J

AU - Johansson K

AD - Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.

AB - An amalgam filling was inserted into the first upper molar of 12 rats and

the animals were killed after 3-9 months. Tissue sections from the trigeminal

ganglia and the brain stem were then investigated with a sensitive histochemical

technique to trace mercury deposits. Within the trigeminal ganglia, nerve cells

with mercury deposits were observed in seven out of 12 rats, whereas no mercury

was detected in sections from the brain stem. The mechanism responsible for the

accumulation of mercury in neurons of the trigeminal ganglia is discussed.

IS - 0966-0844

MJ - Dental Amalgam [metabolism]

MJ - Mercury [pharmacokinetics]

MJ - Trigeminal Ganglion [metabolism]

MN - Brain Stem [metabolism]

MN - Neurons [metabolism]

MN - Rats, Sprague-Dawley

MN - Rats

RN - 7439-97-6 (Mercury); 8049-85-2 (Dental Amalgam)

MT - Animal; Female; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

LA - English

PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE

EM - 199411