Environmental contaminants in breast milk from the Central Asian Republics

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-104

  Lederman, Sally Ann ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Breastfeeding; Central Asia; Pesticides; Soviet Union; Toxicants

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOLOGY; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EASTERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN MILK--ANALYSIS; INFANT NUTRITION; INGREDIENTS AND CHEMICALS; LACTATION; MATERNAL PHYSIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; RESEARCH REPORT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BIOLOGY; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EASTERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPE; HEALTH; HUMAN MILK--ANALYSIS; INFANT NUTRITION; INGREDIENTS AND CHEMICALS; LACTATION; MATERNAL PHYSIOLOGY; NUTRITION; PESTICIDES; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RUSSIA;

ANIMALS; ASIA, CENTRAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MILK, HUMAN; PESTICIDES;

EID: 0030111450     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0890-6238(95)02050-0     Document Type: Article

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