Short Placental Telomere was Associated with Cadmium Pollution in an Electronic Waste Recycling Town in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Shuiqin ^a   Huo, Xia ^a   Zhang, Qingying ^a   Fan, Xiaojuan ^a   Du, Li ^a   Xu, Xijin ^a   Qiu, Shaoshan ^a   Zhang, Yuling ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Gu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; GENOMIC DNA; LEAD;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CADMIUM POLLUTION; CHINA; COMMON COLD SYMPTOM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEWBORN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA; POLLUTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECYCLING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

CADMIUM; CHINA; ELECTRONIC WASTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TELOMERE;

EID: 84875659848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060815     Document Type: Article

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