Disease relevance of oxomercury

• Efficacy and safety of mercuric oxide in the treatment of bacterial blepharitis [1].
• Periorbital contact dermatitis due to yellow mercuric oxide [2].
• Comparison of neurite outgrowth with neurofilament protein subunit levels in neuroblastoma cells following mercuric oxide exposure [3].
• Repeated cutaneous application of yellow mercuric oxide ointment for infected eczema resulted in mercury poisoning in a 4-month-old infant [4].

High impact information on oxomercury

• Poorly soluble mercuric oxide (HgO) as well as mercuric chloride (HgCl2) was absorbed from the ligated segments in the following order: duodenum greater than stomach = jejunum = ileum [5].
• Synthesis of the pseudo-disaccharides was carried out starting from the coupling products of the sugar isothiocyanates and an aminocyclitol, respectively, by cyclization with mercury(II) oxide to the cyclic isoureas and subsequent deprotection [6].
• The retention and distribution of radioactive mercuric oxide following accidental inhalation [7].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of oxomercury

• Mercuric oxide poisoning treated with whole-bowel irrigation and chelation therapy [8].
• At the conclusion of treatment on day 7, 87% of patients in the mercuric oxide group were successful in decreasing bacterial counts, compared with 59% of patients treated with placebo (P = .01) [9].
• A study of mercuric oxide and zinc-air battery life in hearing aids [10].

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