Do human milk concentrations of persistent organic chemicals really decline during lactation? Chemical concentrations during lactation and milk/serum partitioning

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1625-1631

  LaKind, Judy S ^a,b,c   Berlin Jr , Cheston M ^b   Sjödin, Andreas ^d   Turner, Wayman ^d   Wang, Richard Y ^d   Needham, Larry L ^d   Paul, Ian M ^b   Stokes, Jennifer L ^b   Naiman, Daniel Q ^e   Patterson Jr , Donald G ^d,f  

^a LaKind Associates LLC   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^f EnviroSolutions Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Breast milk; Depuration; Dioxins; Elimination kinetics; Infant exposure; Partitioning; PBDEs; PCBs; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIPOPHILICITY; MILK LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; TOXICOKINETICS;

BREAST FEEDING; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; MILK, HUMAN; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 70449558972     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900876     Document Type: Article

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