Prenatal methylmercury exposure from ocean fish consumption in the Seychelles child development study

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Volumn 361, Issue 9370, 2003, Pages 1686-1692

  Myers, Gary J ^a,c   Davidson, Philip W ^a   Cox, Christopher ^a,b   Shamlaye, Conrad F ^c   Palumbo, Donna ^a   Cernichiari, Elsa ^b   Sloane Reeves, Jean ^a   Wilding, Gregory E ^b   Kost, James ^b   Huang, Li Shan ^b   Clarkson, Thomas W ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERACTIVITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAL; MEMORY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SEA; SEYCHELLES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038663167     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13371-5     Document Type: Article

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