Changes in mercury concentrations of segmental maternal hair during gestation and their correlations with other biomarkers of fetal exposure to methylmercury in the Japanese population

Environmental Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 270-276

  Sakamoto, Mineshi ^a   Kubota, Machi ^b   Murata, Katsuyuki ^c   Nakai, Kunihiko ^d   Sonoda, Ikuko ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^d  

^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)

Author keywords

Cord red blood cells; Exposure; Maternal red blood cells; Methylmercury; Neonatal hair; Segmental maternal hair

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOMARKER; HAIR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 38549174780     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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