Neonatology and the environment: Early exposure to airborne environmental toxicants

NeoReviews

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Rauh, Virginia A ^a   Horton, Megan K ^b   Miller, Rachel L ^c   Whyatt, Robin M ^a   Perera, Frederica ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 77954382077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/neo.11-7-e363     Document Type: Article

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