Table 1.

Total Hg levels in blood and brain of rats perinatally treated with 1 mg MeHg/kg bw/day (GD7-PD7) and/or 20 mg PCB153/kg bw/day (GD10–GD16), alone and in combination.

	Blood Hg (μg/ml)			Brain Hg (μg/g)
	Dams	Offspring		Dams	Offspring
		Male	Female		Male	Female
Control	0.017 ± 0.004 n = 3	0.003 ± 0.001 n = 4	0.005 ± 0.004 n = 4	0.013	0.002	0.003
MeHg	11.33 ± 2.26 n = 4	1.35 ± 0.40 n = 4	1.31 ± 0.40 n = 4	7.53	1.67 ± 0.43 n = 4	1.52 ± 0.33 n = 4
MeHg + PCB153	10.74 ± 1.95 n = 5	1.33 ± 0.33 n = 5	1.26 ± 0.20 n = 5	8.78	2.80 ± 1.81 n = 6	1.63 ± 0.20 n = 6
PCB153	0.012 ± 0.001 n = 5	0.003 ± 0.001 n = 4	0.002 ± 0.001 n = 5	0.026	0.024 ± 0.039 n = 4	0.014 ± 0.024 n = 6

Data are the mean ± S.D.