Dioxin-like activities in serum across European and Inuit populations

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Long, Manhai ^a   Andersen, Birgitte S ^a   Lindh, Christian H ^b   Hagmar, Lars ^b   Giwercman, Aleksander ^b   Manicardi, Gian Carlo ^c   Bizzaro, Davide ^d   Spanò, Marcello ^e   Toft, Gunnar ^f   Pedersen, Henning S ^g   Zvyezday, Valentyna ^h   Bonde, Jens Peter ^f   Bonefeld Jorgensen, Eva C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^e ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g Centre for Arctic Environmental Medicine   (Greenland)

^h KHARKIV NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 2,2',4,4',5,5' HEXACHLOROBIPHENYL; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIOXIN; LUCIFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESKIMO; EUROPE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORGANIC POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746051275     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-5-14     Document Type: Article

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