Air pollutant effects on fetal and early postnatal development

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 144-154

  Wang, Lei ^a   Pinkerton, Kent E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Birth defect; Development; Environmental tobacco smoke; Immune system; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CYTOKINE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR OXIDE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL TYPE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MORTALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MONKEY; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 36048976330     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20097     Document Type: Review

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