%0 Journal Article
%T Transport of Methylmercury through the Epithelial Type Amino Acid Transporter System B0
%A Farhana Moslehuddin
%A Hitoshi Endou
%A KM Nazmul Islam Joy
%A MS Jahirul Haque Chowdhury
%A Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury
%A Mohammad Ahtashamul Haque
%A Mohammad Akter Hossain
%A Naohiko Anzai
%A Nesar Ahmed
%A Rafiqul Islam
%A Sagir Ahmed
%A Shamima Ferdous
%A Wahida Begum
%A Yoshikatsu Kanai
%J Journal of National Institute of Neurosciences Bangladesh
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3329/jninb.v5i2.43017
%X Background: System B0 is a sodium dependent transporter that transports wide variety of neutral amino acids in the intestinal and renal proximal tubular epithelial cells. Methylmercury (MeHg) readily and non-enzymatically reacts with cysteine to form conjugate structurally similar to the amino acid methionine
%U https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JNINB/article/view/43017