Necessity to measure PCBs and organochlorine pesticide concentrations in human umbilical cords for fetal exposure assessment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 297-303

  Fukata, Hideki ^a   Omori, Mariko ^a   Osada, Hisao ^a,b   Todaka, Emiko ^a   Mori, Chisato ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Maternal blood; Organochlorine pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; ENDOSULFAN; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BLOOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 16244377141     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7330     Document Type: Article

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