Relationships between vitamin A and PCBs in grey seal mothers and pups during lactation

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1570-1575

  Vanden Berghe, Marie ^a   Mat, Audrey ^a   Arriola, Aline ^b   Polain, Stéphanie ^c   Stekke, Valérie ^c   Thomé, Jean Pierre ^c   Gaspart, Frédéric ^a   Pomeroy, Paddy ^b   Larondelle, Yvan ^a   Debier, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blubber; Grey seal; Lactation; PCBs; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; GREY SEAL; INNER LAYER; MOBILISATION; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PANEL DATA; SCOTLAND; VITAMIN A;

BODY FLUIDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RETINOL;

LACTATION; MILK; PCB; PINNIPED; SUCKLING; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; LACTATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; MILK LEVEL; NONHUMAN; SEAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MILK; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEALS, EARLESS; VITAMIN A;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 77950298863     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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