Half-lives of serum PCB congener concentrations in environmentally exposed early adolescents

Chemosphere

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 687-691

  Wimmerová, Soňa ^a   Lancz, Kinga ^a   Tihányi, Juraj ^a   Šovčíková, Eva ^a   Kočan, Anton ^a   Drobná, Beáta ^a   Palkovičová, Ľubica ^a   Jurečková, Dana ^b   Fabišiková, Anna ^a   Čonka, Kamil ^a   Trnovec, Tomáš ^a  

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b The tefan Kukura Hospital and Policlinic   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Environmental exposure; Half life; PCBs

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ADOLESCENTS; ARBITRARY VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HALF LIVES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PCB CONCENTRATION; PCB CONGENERS; SERUM CONCENTRATION;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADOLESCENCE; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; HALF LIFE; PCB; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 78650724134     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.10.099     Document Type: Article

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