See Also: thiol-dependent peroxidase(medicine)
Minamata disease(medicine)
Minamata disease(dictionary)
Minamata disease(encyclopedia)
Disease, Minamata(health)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Thiol(medicine)
thiol(dictionary)
thiol proteinase(medicine)
thiol ester(medicine)

Minamata disease (medicine) and thiol-dependent peroxidase (medicine)


Minamata disease (medicine)


Minamata disease


A neurologic disorder caused by methyl mercury intoxication; first described in the inhabitants of Minamata Bay, Japan, resulting from their eating fish contaminated with mercury industrial waste. Characterised by peripheral sensory loss, tremors, dysarthria, ataxia, and both hearing and visual loss.


thiol-dependent peroxidase (medicine)


thiol-dependent peroxidase
<enzyme> From giardia intestinalis, which lacks glutathione; enzyme can also act with exogenous glutathione

Registry number: EC 1.11.1.-

Synonym: glutathione-linked thiol peroxidase