Serum organochlorines and urinary porphyrin pattern in a population highlyexposed to hexachlorobenzene

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c   Herrero, Carmen ^d   Ozalla, Dolores ^d   Sala, Maria ^a,b   Ribas Fitó, Núria ^a,b   Grimalt, Joan ^b,e   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,b  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b Universitat Pompeu Fabra ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coproporphyrin I; Coproporphyrin III; Hexachlorobenzene; Organochlorinated compounds; Porphyria; Uroporphyrin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COPROPORPHYRIN; COPROPORPHYRIN I; COPROPORPHYRIN III; HEPTACARBOXYPORPHYRIN; HEPTAPORPHYRIN I; HEPTAPORPHYRIN III; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROPORPHYRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; EXCRETION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PORPHYRIN METABOLISM; SMOKING; SPAIN; TOXICOKINETICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PORPHYRINS; SPAIN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27244452375     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-1-1     Document Type: Article

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