Correlation between maternal milk and infant serum levels of chlorinated pesticides (CP) and the impact of elevated CP on bleeding tendency and immune status in some infants in Egypt

Journal of Immunotoxicology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-24

  Schaalan, Mona F ^a   Abdelraouf, Sahar M ^a   Mohamed, Waleed A ^b   Hassanein, Fetouh S ^a  

^a Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Cairo General Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bleeding tendency; Chlorinated pesticides; Dichlorodiphenyltri chloroethane (DDT); Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH); IL 10; TNF

Indexed keywords

ALDRIN; CHLORINATED PESTICIDE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; ENDRIN; HEPTA CHLOROEPOXIDE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; INTERLEUKIN 10; LIVER ENZYME; PESTICIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EGYPT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTOXICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BREAST FEEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-10; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MILK, HUMAN; PESTICIDES; PLATELET COUNT; PREGNANCY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION; VITAMIN K; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856839334     PISSN: 1547691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/1547691X.2011.606432     Document Type: Article

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