Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and related perfluorinated compounds in human maternal and cord blood samples: Assessment of PFOS exposure in a susceptible population during pregnancy

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1204-1207

  Inoue, Koichi ^a   Okada, Fumio ^a   Ito, Rie ^a   Kato, Shizue ^b   Sasaki, Seiko ^b   Nakajima, Sonomi ^b   Uno, Akiko ^b   Saijo, Yasuaki ^b   Sata, Fumihiro ^b   Yoshimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Kishi, Reiko ^b   Nakazawa, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Fluorinated organic compounds; Human; PFOA; PFOS; PFOSA; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROOCTANE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PLASTIC; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FETUS (ANATOMY); FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INFANT; JAPAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MONITORING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEXTILE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

RODENTIA;

EID: 4344595782     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6864     Document Type: Article

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