Toxicokinetic modeling of persistent organic pollutant levels in blood from birth to 45 months of age in longitudinal birth cohort studies

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-137

  Verner, Marc André ^a,b   Sonneborn, Dean ^c   Lancz, Kinga ^d   Muckle, Gina ^e   Ayotte, Pierre ^e   Dewailly, Éric ^e   Kocan, Anton ^f   Palkovicová, Lubica ^d   Trnovec, Tomas ^d   Haddad, Sami ^g   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^c   Eggesbø, Merete ^h  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children's health; Lactational exposures; Longitudinal birth studies; Persistent organic pollutants; Toxicokinetic modeling

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; EXCRETION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; MODEL; NEWBORN; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PLACENTA; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TOXICOKINETICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MILK, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84872070112     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205552     Document Type: Article

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