Apparent half-lives of dioxins, furans, and polychlorinated biphenyls as a function of age, body fat, smoking status, and breast-feeding

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 417-425

  Milbrath, Meghan O'Grady ^a   Wenger, Yvan ^a   Chang, C W Chiung Wen ^a   Emond, Claude ^b   Garabrant, David ^a   Gillespie, Brenda W ^a   Jolliet, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elimination rate; Half life; Pharmacokinetics; Poly chlorinated dibenzofurans; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; FURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BURDEN; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCRETION; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; INFANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SMOKING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY COMPOSITION; BREAST FEEDING; DIOXINS; FEMALE; FURANS; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REFERENCE VALUES; SMOKING;

EID: 64049092900     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11781     Document Type: Review

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