In Utero pesticides esposure, maternal paraoxonase activity, and head circumference

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 388-391

  Berkowitz, Gertrud S ^a   Wetmur, James G ^a   Birman Deych, Elena ^a   Obel, Josephine ^b   Lapinski, Robert H ^a   Goldbold, James H ^a   Holzman, Ian R ^a   Wolff, Mary S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Exposure assessment; Fetal growth; Neonatal; Paraoxonase gene and phenotype; Pesticides; Pregnancy; Urinary biomarkers

Indexed keywords

ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; CHLORPYRIFOS; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID; INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD GROWTH; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FETUS GROWTH; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MOTHER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; URINE LEVEL; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PLANT; PREGNANCY; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHLORPYRIFOS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PYRETHRINS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 1542686280     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6414     Document Type: Article

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