Assessment of PCBs exposure in human hair using double focusing high resolution mass spectrometry and single quadrupole mass spectrometry

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 225-231

  Barbounis, Emmanouil G ^a   Tzatzarakis, Manolis N ^a   Alegakis, Athanasios K ^a   Kokkinaki, Aikaterini ^a   Karamanos, Nikos ^b   Tsakalof, Andreas ^c   Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; GC DFHRMS; GC MS; Hair; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREECE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIQUID SOLID EXTRACTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GREECE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859158475     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.07.031     Document Type: Article

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