Influence of maternal lead ingestion on caries in rat pups

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1024-1025

  Watson, Gene E ^a   Davis, Bianca A ^a   Raubertas, Richard F ^a   Pearson, Sylvia K ^a   Bowen, William H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LEAD;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; HIGH RISK POPULATION; LACTATION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MILK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; URBAN POPULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; DENTAL CARIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MILK; PAROTID GLAND; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030768378     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0997-1024     Document Type: Article

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