The relationship between dioxins and salivary steroid hormones in Vietnamese primiparae

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-229

  Manh, Ho Dung ^a,b   Kido, Teruhiko ^a   Okamoto, Rie ^a   Xianliang, Sun ^a   Viet, Nguyen Hoang ^a   Nakano, Madoca ^a   Tai, Pham The ^c   Maruzeni, Shoko ^c   Nishijo, Muneko ^c   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^c   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^d   Honma, Seijiro ^e   Van Tung, Dao ^f   Nhu, Dang Duc ^g   Hung, Nguyen Ngoc ^g   Son, Le Ke ^h  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Lac Hong University   (Viet Nam)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Grelan Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^f Viet Tiep Hospital Hai Phong   (Viet Nam)

^g HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^h Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Dioxin; Saliva; Steroid hormone; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; DIOXIN; HYDROCORTISONE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; PRASTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIMIPARA; SALIVA LEVEL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIOXINS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; PARITY; SALIVA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877769940     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-012-0310-x     Document Type: Article

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