Correlations between mercury concentrations in umbilical cord tissue and other biomarkers of fetal exposure to methylmercury in the Japanese population

Environmental Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-111

  Sakamoto, Mineshi ^a   Kaneoka, Tsuyoshi ^b   Murata, Katsuyuki ^c   Nakai, Kunihiko ^d   Satoh, Hiroshi ^d   Akagi, Hirokatsu ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e International Mercury Laboratory Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Exposure; Fetus; Hair; Maternal blood; Mercury; Methylmercury; Parturition; Umbilical cord blood; Umbilical cord tissue

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOMARKER; FOOD CONSUMPTION; IMMUNOASSAY; METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MERCURIALISM; MINAMATA DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUOKA [FUKUOKA (PRF)]; FUKUOKA [KYUSHU]; JAPAN; KYUSHU; NAGASAKI [KYUSHU]; TSUSHIMA;

EID: 33845435258     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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