Postnatal exposure to chlorinated dioxins and related chemicals on thyroid hormone status in Japanese breast-fed infants

Chemosphere

Volumn 37, Issue 9-12, 1998, Pages 1789-1793

  Nagayama, Junya ^a   Okamura, Ken ^a   Iida, Takao ^b   Hirakawa, Hironori ^b   Matsueda, Takahiko ^b   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^c   Hasegawa, Mayumi ^a   Sato, Kayo ^a   Ma, Hsing Yi ^a   Yanagawa, Takashi ^a   Igarashi, Hisaji ^c   Fukushige, Jun'ichiro ^c   Watanabe, Tadayoshi ^d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Watanabe OBGY Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coplanar PCBs; Japanese infants; Lactational exposure; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins; Polychlorinated dibenzofurans; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN; LIOTHYRONINE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILK LEVEL; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BENZOFURANS; BREAST FEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 0032191498     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00244-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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