Faros

Shotyk W, Goodsite ME, Roos-Barraclough F, Givelet N, Le Roux G, Weiss D, Cheburkin AK, Knudsen K, Heinemeier J, van Der Knaap WO, Norton SA, Lohse C. 2005. Accumulation rates and predominant atmospheric sources of natural and anthropogenic Hg and Pb on the Faroe Islands. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 69 1-17. 

Santos, M. S., Ferreira, F., Faro, C. el al. (1994). The amount of GABA present in aqueous extracts of valerian is sufficient to account for [3H] GABA release in synaptosomes. Planta Med., 60, 475-6. 

Amaldo da Costa Faro Junior3 , Victor de Oliveira Rodrigues3... 

Pilot whale, Globicephala melas Faroe Islands 1986 ... 

Hair Faroe Islands number of fish meals per week ... 

Schintu, M., F. Jean-Caurant, and J.C. Amiard. 1992. Qrganomercury determination in biological reference materials application to a study on mercury speciation in marine mammals off the Faroe Islands. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Safety 24 95-101. 

Weihe, P., P. Grandjean, F. Debes, and R. White. 1996. Health implications for Faroe Islanders of heavy metals and PCBs from pilot whales. Sci. Total Environ. 186 141-148. 

Ramalho-Santos M, Pissarra J, Verissimo P, Pereira S, Salema R, Pires E, Faro CJ. Cardosin A, an abundant aspartic proteinase, accumulates in protein storage vacuoles in the stigmatic papillae of Cynara cardunculus I. Planta 1997 203 204-212. 

G.G. Barnafoldi, P. Levai, and B. Lukacs, Heavy quarks or compactified extra dimensions in the core of hybrid stars , in Proceedings of the 4th Int. Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, Faro, Portugal, Worlds Scientific, Singapore, 2003. (astro-ph/0312330). 

R. Riegman and G.W. Kraay, Phytoplankton community structure derived from HPLC analysis of pigments in the Faroe-Shetland Channel during summer, 1999 the distribution of taxonomic groups in relation to physical/chemical condition in the photic zone. J. Plankton Res. 23 (2001) 191-206. 

Alfonso M, Duran R, Campos F, Perez-Vences D, Faro LR, et al. 2003. Mechanisms underlying domoic acid-induced dopamine release from striatum an in vivo microdialysis study. Neurochem Res 28(10) 1487-1493. 

Several recent epidemiological studies have involved examination of populations that consume unusually high levels of fish. One of these, conducted in the islands of the Seychelles, has not so far revealed behavioral and learning impairments in children whose mothers exhibited mercury levels (measured in hair) higher than those typically seen in the United States and European countries. But another study, conducted in the Faroe Islands, turned up evidence of cognitive and behavioral impairments in children. Scientists have struggled to understand why two well-done studies have produced such different outcomes, and some possible reasons have been suggested. The EPA and public health officials have acted on the basis of the Faroe data, out of both caution and also because they seem to be supported by other, more limited data, and by experimental studies. The debate is not so much about whether methylmercury is a developmental toxicant, but rather over the dose required. 

Clapperton, B. K., Minot, E. D., and Crump, D. R. (1988). An olfactoiy recognition system in the ferret Mustela faro L. (Carnivora Mustefidze). Animal Behaviour 36, 541-553. 

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