Selenium in pregnancy: Is selenium an active defective ion against environmental chemical stress?

Environmental Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-61

  Kantola, M ^a,h   Purkunen, R ^b   Kroger P ^a   Tooming, A ^c   Juravskaja, J ^d   Pasanen, M ^e,f   Seppanen K ^a   Saarikoski, S ^g   Vartiainen, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Central Hospital of Rakvere   (Estonia)

^d Inst for Adv Train of Physicians   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f NATIONAL AGENCY FOR MEDICINES   (Finland)

^g KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; P450 enzyme activities; Pregnancy; Selenium; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; CYTOCHROME P450; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ENZYME; HEAVY METAL; MATERNAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; SELENIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; STRESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SELENIUM; SMOKING;

EID: 3142772654     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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