Prenatal Exposure to a Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Congener Influences Fixation Duration on Biological Motion at 4-Months-Old: A Preliminary Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Nishitani, Shota ^a   Fujisawa, Takashi X ^a   Nagai, Tomoko ^a   Kakeyama, Masaki ^b   Maeda, Takahiro ^a   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STATUS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84875554081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059196     Document Type: Article

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