Changes in body burden of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium and selenium in infants during early lactation in comparison with placental transfer

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 179-184

  Sakamoto, Mineshi ^a   Man Chan, Hing ^b   Domingo, José L ^c   Kubota, Machi ^d   Murata, Katsuyuki ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ SANITÀRIA PERE VIRGILI IISPV   (Spain)

^d Chikushi Clinic   (Japan)

^e AKITA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Breast milk; Breastfed infant; Cadmium; Fetus; Lead; Methylmercury; Red blood cells; Selenium

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LEAD; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM;

ARSENIC; BREASTFEEDING; CADMIUM; LACTATION; LEAD; METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY BURDEN; BREAST MILK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILDBIRTH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JAPANESE; LACTATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER;

ADULT; ARSENIC; BODY BURDEN; BREAST FEEDING; CADMIUM; ELEMENTS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SELENIUM;

EID: 84865579508     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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