Cancer risk to Japanese population from the consumption of inorganic arsenic in cooked hijiki

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2536-2540

  Nakamura, Yuko ^a   Narukawa, Tomohiro ^b   Yoshinaga, Jun ^c  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Hijiki; Inorganic arsenic; Oral slope factor

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; DIET; HEAT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SEAWEED; SKIN TUMOR;

ARSENIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIET; HEAT; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEAWEED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42449158107     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0731797     Document Type: Article

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