Table 6.
Tissue | C57Black6 Wild-Type (Ccl2+/+) | C57Black6 KO (Ccl2−/−) | |||
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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 * |
Expressed in ng/g ± SD (n = 4) on a dry weight basis;
Salmon: mice were fed a 0.15% salmon flesh-containing diet;
Aimara: 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.