Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 528-533

  Aris, Aziz ^a,b   Leblanc, Samuel ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cry1Ab; Genetically modified foods; Gluphosinate; Glyphosate; Maternal and fetal blood; Nonpregnant women; Pregnant women

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLPHOSPHINICOPROPIONIC ACID; AMINOMETHYL PHOSPHORIC ACID; CRY1AB TOXIN; GLYPHOSATE; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN; PHOSPHORIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS OUTCOME; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MATERNAL WELFARE; METABOLITE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLYCINE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACIDS; PREGNANCY; PROPIONIC ACIDS; QUEBEC;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79956347715     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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