Is placenta a good indicator of cadmium and lead exposure?

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 389-394

  Lagerkvist, Birgitta Json ^a   Sandberg, Susanne ^a   Frech, Wolfgang ^b   Jin, Taiyi ^b   Nordberg, Gunnar F ^b  

^a Department of Environmental Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; PLACENTA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SMELTER; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029858257     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1996.9934427     Document Type: Article

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