Associations between serum levels of selected organochlorine compounds and endometriosis in infertile Japanese women

Environmental Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 118-125

  Tsukino, Hiromasa ^a   Hanaoka, Tomoyuki ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Motoyama, Hiroshi ^b   Hiroshima, Makiko ^b   Tanaka, Tadao ^b   Kabuto, Michinori ^c   Niskar, Amanda Sue ^d   Rubin, Carol ^d   Patterson Jr , Donald G ^d   Turner, Wayman ^d   Needham, Larry ^d   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls; Endometriosis; Organochlorines; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins; Polychlorinated dibenzofurans

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

INFERTILITY; ORGANOCHLORINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 22844452775     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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