Historical and geographical aspects of the increasing perfluorooctanoate and perfluorooctane sulfonate contamination in human serum in Japan

Chemosphere

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 293-301

  Harada, Kouji ^a   Koizumi, Akio ^a   Saito, Norimitsu ^b   Inoue, Kayoko ^a   Yoshinaga, Takeo ^a   Date, Chigusa ^c   Fujii, Shigeo ^d   Hachiya, Noriyuki ^e   Hirosawa, Iwao ^f   Koda, Shigeki ^g   Kusaka, Yukinori ^h   Murata, Katsuyuki ⁱ   Omae, Kazuyuki ^j   Shimbo, Shinichiro ^k   Takenaka, Katsunobu ^l   Takeshita, Tatsuya ^m   Todoriki, Hidemi ⁿ   Wada, Yasuhiko ^o   Watanabe, Takao ^p   Ikeda, Masayuki ^q  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Research Institute for Environmental Sciences and Public Health of Iwate Prefecture   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^f KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

ⁱ AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^j KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l Takayama Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^m WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^o KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^p MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^q KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Geographical difference; Long term trend; Perfluorooctane sulfonate; Perfluorooctanoate; Serum

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOXIC MATERIALS;

GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCE; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATE; PERFLUOROOCTANOATE; SERUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; FLUOROCARBON; SULFONATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; SERUM;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUI; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO; MATSUOKA; OSAKA [KINKI]; OSAKA [OSAKA (PRF)];

EID: 33751227186     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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