Table 6.

Mercury bioaccumulation in tissues from mice fed fish-containing diets for three months. ^a

Tissue	C57Black6 Wild-Type (Ccl2+/+)			C57Black6 KO (Ccl2−/−)
	Control	Salmon b	Aimara c	Control	Aimara c
Hair	62 ± 35	24 ± 15	470 ± 137 *	28 ± 15	475 ± 190 *
Kidney	63 ± 64	43 ± 12	907 ± 142 *	37 ± 10	751 ± 239 *
Liver	5 ± 4	4.4 ± 0.8	67 ± 7 *	6 ± 3	100 ± 47 *
Muscles	2.6 ± 1.3	3.6 ± 2.0	56 ± 4 *	4.5 ± 3.5	78 ± 27 *
Brain	2.6 ± 0.7	2.7 ± 0.6	31 ± 14 *	2.9 ± 1.5	32 ± 9 *
Eyes	8 ± 6	3 ± 2	65 ± 38 *	5 ± 4	70 ± 19 *
Blood	0.9 ± 0.7	1.9 ± 0.2	32 ± 5 *	1.0 ± 0.9	37 ± 15 *
Feces	2.4 ± 1.3	2.2 ± 0.9	19 ± 3 *	3.3 ± 0.1	17 ± 6 *

^aExpressed in ng/g ± SD (n = 4) on a dry weight basis;

^bSalmon: mice were fed a 0.15% salmon flesh-containing diet;

^cAimara: mice were fed a 0.15% aimara flesh-containing diet;

The asterisk indicates a significant mercury accumulation in tissues of mice fed the aimara diet compared to those fed both the control and salmon diets, as determined with the Mann-Whitney U-test, ^* p < 0.05.