Dioxin-like TEQ of women from the Seveso, Italy area by ID-HRGC/HRMS and CALUX

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 310-318

  Warner, Marcella ^a   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a   Patterson Jr , Donald G ^b   Clark, George ^c   Turner, Wayman E ^b   Bonsignore, Luigi ^d   Mocarelli, Paolo ^d   Gerthoux, Pier Mario ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c Xenobiotic Detection Systems Inc   (United States)

^d DESIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

CALUX; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; TCDD; TEQ

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOEQUIVALENCE; CHEMICAL ACTIVATED LUCIFERASE GENE EXPRESSION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ITALY; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 23744474327     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500407     Document Type: Article

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