Noninvasive assessment of liver detoxification capacity of children, observed in children from heavily polluted industrial and clean control areas, together with assessments of air pollution and chloro-organic body burden

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-108

  Herbarth, Olf ^a,b   Franck, Ulrich ^a   Krumbiegel, Peter ^a   Rehwagen, Martina ^a   Rolle Kampczyk, Ulrike ^a   Weiß, Holger ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Chlorinated hydrocarbons; Intervention study; Liver detoxification capacity

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIOREMEDIATION; DETOXIFICATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARDS; ISOTOPES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PATHOLOGY;

LIVER DETOXIFICATION CAPACITY; NANINVASIVE ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL PROCESS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

4 ACETANISIDINE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; STABLE ISOTOPE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

AIR QUALITY; CHILD HEALTH; DETOXIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; KINDERGARTEN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER METABOLISM; METABOLIC CAPACITY; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETAMIDES; BODY BURDEN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDUSTRY; LIVER; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC;

EID: 16544381550     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20001     Document Type: Article

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