Human exposure to antimony. II. Contents in some human tissues often used in biomonitoring (hair, nails, teeth)

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1058-1115

  Filella, Montserrat ^a,b   Belzile, Nelson ^c   Chen, Yu Wei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SCHEMA ^*  (Luxembourg)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimony; Biomonitoring; Hair; Nails; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ANTIMONY CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND VALUE; BIOMONITORING; CASE-CONTROL STUDY; DETECTION LIMITS; HAIR; HIGH DISPERSION; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HUMAN HAIR; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN NAILS; HUMAN TISSUES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MULTI-ELEMENT; REFERENCE MATERIAL; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; TEETH;

ANTIMONY; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; NAILS; TISSUE;

HISTOLOGY;

ANTIMONY;

ANTIMONY; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DISPERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRESERVATION; SAMPLING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NAIL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SCALP; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE LEVEL; TOOTH;

EID: 84859635408     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2011.556540     Document Type: Article

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