Elevated body burdens of PBDEs, dioxins, and PCBs on thyroid hormone homeostasis at an electronic waste recycling site in China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3956-3962

  Zhang, Jianqing ^a   Jiang, Yousheng ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a   Wu, Bin ^b   Liang, Yin ^a   Peng, Zhaoqiong ^b   Fang, Daokui ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Huang, Haiyan ^a   He, Cai ^a   Wang, Chunlei ^a   Lu, Feina ^a  

^a SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Luqiao Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY BURDEN; CONCENTRATION OF; CORD BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE (E WASTE); ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; MATERNAL SERUM; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PCDD/FS; POTENTIAL HEALTH; PREGNANT WOMAN; REFERENCE GROUP; SAMPLE SETS; THYROID HORMONES; WHOLE BLOOD;

BLOOD; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; ISOTOPES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RECYCLING;

HORMONES;

LIOTHYRONINE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE 5 DEIODINASE;

DIOXIN; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HEALTH RISK; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE; PBDE; PCB; PREGNANCY; RECYCLING; SERUM; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CHINA; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; RECYCLING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIOXINS; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; THYROID HORMONES;

CHINA;

EID: 77952499735     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902883a     Document Type: Article

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