Association of selected persistent organic pollutants in the placenta with the risk of neural tube defects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12770-12775

  Ren, Aiguo ^a   Qiu, Xinghua ^b   Jin, Lei ^a   Ma, Jin ^b   Li, Zhiwen ^a   Zhang, Le ^a   Zhu, Huiping ^c   Finnell, Richard H ^c,d   Zhu, Tong ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Indoor air pollution

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,1,1 TRICHLORO 2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ANTHRACENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOSULFAN; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; LINDANE; MITOTANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FEVER; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PLACENTA; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; DDT; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINDANE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PESTICIDES; PLACENTA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79961228773     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105209108     Document Type: Article

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