| mercury in muscle and brain of catfish from the madeira river, amazon, brazil. | the central nervous system is a critical target for hg toxicity in all living organisms. total hg (thg) was determined in brain and muscle samples of 165 specimens of eight species of catfish (brachyplatystoma filamentosum; brachyplatystoma platynemum; brachyplatystoma rousseauxii; brachyplatystoma vaillantii; phractocephalus hemiliopterus; pseudoplatystoma punctifer; pseudoplatystoma tigrinum; zungaro zungaro) from the madeira river, brazilian amazon. despite the narrow range of fishbase trophi ... | 2015 | 25913362 |