"Seychelles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of Indian Ocean Islands, east of Tanzania. Their capital is Victoria. They were first claimed by the French in 1744 but taken by the English in 1794 and made a dependency of MAURITIUS in 1810. They became a crown colony in 1903 and a republic within the Commonwealth in 1976. They were named for the French finance minister, Jean Moreau de Sechelles, but respelled by the English in 1794. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p496)
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Seychelles" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Seychelles" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Seychelles" by people in Profiles.
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Dose-response relationship of prenatal mercury exposure and IQ: an integrative analysis of epidemiologic data. Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Apr; 115(4):609-15.
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Do recent data from the Seychelles Islands alter the conclusions of the NRC Report on the toxicological effects of methylmercury? Environ Health. 2004 Jan 30; 3(1):2.
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Prenatal methylmercury exposure in the Seychelles. Lancet. 2003 Aug 23; 362(9384):664-5; author reply 665.
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Prenatal methylmercury exposure in the Seychelles. Lancet. 2003 Aug 23; 362(9384):666; author reply 666-7.
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Prenatal methylmercury exposure in the Seychelles. Lancet. 2003 Aug 23; 362(9384):665; author reply 666-7.
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Association between prenatal exposure to methylmercury and cognitive functioning in Seychellois children: a reanalysis of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Ability from the main cohort study. Environ Res. 2000 Oct; 84(2):81-8.
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Effects of prenatal and postnatal methylmercury exposure from fish consumption on neurodevelopment: outcomes at 66 months of age in the Seychelles Child Development Study. JAMA. 1998 Aug 26; 280(8):701-7.