Human thyroid in the population exposed to high environmental pollution by organochlorinated pollutants for several decades

Endocrine Regulations

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-20

  Langer, Pavel ^a,c   Kocan, A ^a   Tajtakova, M ^b   Petrik, J ^a   Chovancova, J ^a   Drobna, B ^a   Jursa, S ^a   Pavuk, M ^a   Trnovec, T ^a   Sebokova E ^a   Klimes I ^a  

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

DDE; Hexachlorobenzene; Industrial pollution; PCB congeners; Pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Thyroid disorders; Thyroid volume

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; NICKEL 63; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; AUTOANTIBODY; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; IODIDE PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLLUTION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND; AGING; BLOOD; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24644512872     PISSN: 12100668     EISSN: 13360329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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