Placental concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic and the risk of neural tube defects in a Chinese population

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-31

  Jin, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Le ^a,b   Li, Zhiwen ^a,b   Liu, Jian meng ^a,b   Ye, Rrongwei ^a,b   Ren, Aiguo ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Arsenic; Birth defects; Cadmium; Heavy metals; Lead; Mercury; Neural tube defects; Placenta; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADULT; ARSENIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84871021479     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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