Enantiomeric ratios as an indicator of exposure processes for persistent pollutants in human placentas

Chemosphere

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 390-395

  Shen, Heqing ^a   Virtanen, H E ^c   Main, Katharina M ^b   Kaleva, M ^c   Andersson, A M ^b   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^b   Toppari, Jorma ^c   Schramm, Karl Werner ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chiral persistent pollutant; Enantiomeric ratio; Finland; Human exposure; Placenta

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; METABOLISM; MIXTURES;

ENANTIOMETRIC RATIO; FINLAND; HUMAN EXPOSURE; PLACENTA;

ISOMERS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; LINDANE;

BIOACCUMULATION; POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENANTIOMER; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 28544450486     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.04.100     Document Type: Article

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