FAEEs in meconium as biomarkers of maternal drinking habit during pregnancy

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-

  Pichini, Simona ^a   Garcia Algar, Oscar ^b   Klein, Julia ^c   Koren, Gideon ^d  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c Drug Testing Consultants   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FATTY ACID ESTER;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL SMOKING; MECONIUM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MECONIUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 62949102925     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20559     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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2. Chan D, Bar-Oz B, Pellerin B, et al. 2003. Population baseline of meconium fatty acid ethyl esters among infants of nondrinking women in Jerusalem and Toronto. Ther Drug Monit 25:271-278.
3. Pichini S, Pellegrini M, Gareri J, et al. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for fatty acid ethyl esters in meconium: assessment of prenatal exposure to alcohol in two European cohorts. J Pharm Biomed Anal (in press).