Increased levels of urinary nitrite and nitrotyrosine in Yusho victims 40 years after accidental poisoning with polychlorinated biphenyls in Nagasaki, Japan

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1040-1044

  Shimizu, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Ogawa, Fumihide ^a,b   Thiele, Jens J ^c   Jeong, Boem Lee ^d   Bae, Sangjae ^a   Sato, Shinichi ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Study Group for the Treatment of 'Yusho' at Nagasaki   (Japan)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Nitrite; Nitrotyrosine; PCBs; Urine; Yusho

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; OXYGEN; PEROXYNITRITE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SUPEROXIDE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JAPAN; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; MALE; NITRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL; YUSHO DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRITES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT OILS; POISONING; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TYROSINE;

EID: 55549138427     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.1370     Document Type: Article

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