Lead in saliva from lead-exposed and unexposed children

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1547-1550

  Costa de Almeida, Glauce Regina ^a   Umbelino de Freitas, Clarice ^b   Barbosa Jr , Fernando ^a   Tanus Santos, José Eduardo ^a   Gerlach, Raquel Fernanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SES / SP / Brasil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deciduous teeth; Enamel microbiopsy; Lead; Saliva

Indexed keywords

BIO-MONITORING; DECIDUOUS TEETH; ENAMEL MICROBIOPSY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATIONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA- MASS SPECTROMETRIES; LEAD CONTAMINATIONS; LEAD CONTENTS; LEAD EXPOSURES; MANN-WHITNEY; NON-INVASIVE METHODS; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SALIVA; WHOLE BLOODS; WHOLE SALIVAS;

BODY FLUIDS; CONTAMINATION; DENTISTRY; ENAMELS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

LEAD;

BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; ENAMEL; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LEAD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALIVA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SALIVA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 59149092339     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.058     Document Type: Article

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