Hexabromocyclododecanes in human adipose tissue from Japan

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 328-333

  Isobe, Tomohiko ^a,b   Oda, Hiroko ^a   Takayanagi, Nozomi ^a   Kunisue, Tatsuya ^a,c   Komori, Hiroaki ^d   Arita, Norimasa ^d   Ueda, Norifumi ^d   Nose, Masato ^d   Yamada, Taketo ^e   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; SAMPLING; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ASIA; EHIME; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; SHIKOKU;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69649094155     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN09024     Document Type: Article

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