Cord serum immunoglobulin E related to the environmental contamination of human placentas with organochlorine compounds

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 895-899

  Reichrtová, Eva ^a   Cizná, Peter ^b   Prachar, Viktor ^a   Palkovicová, Lubica ^a   Veningerová, Marta ^a  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b Derer 's University Hospital Slovakia   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Allergy; Atopic eczema; Biomarkers; Congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls; Cord serum immunoglobulin E; Human placenta; Organochlorine compounds; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CITY; CORD SERUM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0032786274     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107895     Document Type: Article

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