Intrinsic human elimination half-lives of polychlorinated biphenyls derived from the temporal evolution of cross-sectional biomonitoring data from the United Kingdom

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-231

  Ritter, Roland ^a   Scheringer, Martin ^a   MacLeod, Matthew ^a   Moeckel, Claudia ^b   Jones, Kevin C ^b   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elimination half life; Exposure analysis; PCB; Persistent organic pollutants; Pharmacokinetic model

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRINSIC ELIMINATION HALF LIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; BLOOD; POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREAT BRITAIN; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 78651463050     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002211     Document Type: Article

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