Heated indoor swimming pools, infants, and the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A neurogenic hypothesis

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  McMaster, Marianne E ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; BROMOFORM; CHLOROFORM; CYANIDE; CYANOGEN; CYANOGEN BROMIDE; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DICHLOROACETONITRILE; NEUROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACETONITRILE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; CYANOGEN CHLORIDE; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ABNORMALITY; ADOLESCENCE; CHLORINE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SWIMMING; TOXIN; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIGENETICS; HEATED INDOOR SWIMMING POOL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING POOL; ADOLESCENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEATING; MALE; MOUTH; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACETONITRILES; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHLORINE; CYANIDES; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOUTH; NEUROTOXINS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RISK FACTORS; SCOLIOSIS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPINE; SWIMMING POOLS; TRIHALOMETHANES;

EID: 80053469114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-86     Document Type: Article

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