National Institute for Minamata Disease

水俣病・水銀に関する総合的な調査・研究を通じ、人に優しい社会を想像します。

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2023.10.31: Announcement of the Award – Special Assistant Director General, Mineshi Sakamoto, Receives Award from the Biometals Specialty Section of The Japanese Society of Toxicology.

2023.10.31: We have renewed three Brochures: "MEG Center", "Nursing-care prevention", and "Outpatient rehabilitation".

2023.10.12: Laboratory Proficiency Testing for Mercury: Final Report on the Second Test (Fish) and Information on the Third Test (Sediment).

2023.10.12: Newsletters No.55 (October 2023 issue) has been posted.

2023.9.29: FY2022 Annual Report has been posted.

2023.9.29: FY2022 Research Assessment Report has been posted.

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2023.6.12: Trends of mercury concentration in hair in Japan (in Japanese)

2023.6.9: Single-trial Neuromagnetic Analysis Reveals Somatosensory Dysfunction in Chronic Minamata Disease

2023.1.26: Alterations in UPR signaling by methylmercury trigger neuronal cell death in the mouse brain

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