Hydroxylated PCB metabolites and PCBs in serum from pregnant faroese women

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 895-899

  Fängström, Britta ^a   Athanasiadou, Maria ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^a   Weihe, Pál ^a   Bergman, Åke ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Faroe Islands; Marine foods; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorobiphenylols; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

LIPID; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EATING HABIT; FAROE ISLANDS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036737835     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110895     Document Type: Article

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