Serum PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Slovakia: Age, gender, and residence as determinants of organochlorine concentrations

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 410-418

  Petrik, Jan ^a   Drobna, Beata ^a   Pavuk, Marian ^b   Jursa, Stanislav ^a   Wimmerova, Sona ^a   Chovancova, Jana ^a  

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b SpecPro Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Gender differences; Organochlorine pesticides; PCBs; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISKS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

AGE; GENDER DIFFERENCES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; SLOVAKIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISKS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

DDE; DDT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENDER; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MALE; METABOLITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOVAKIA;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KOSICKY; MICHALOVCE; SLOVAKIA; STROPKOV; SVIDNIK;

EID: 33747165075     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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