Fetal exposure to ethanol: Relationship between ethyl glucuronide in maternal hair during pregnancy and ethyl glucuronide in neonatal meconium

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 427-435

  Joya, Xavier ^a,b   Marchei, Emilia ^c   Salat Batlle, Judith ^a,b   García Algar, Oscar ^a,b,d   Calvaresi, Valeria ^c   Pacifici, Roberta ^c   Pichini, Simona ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

alcohol biomarkers; fetal alcohol syndrome; hair testing; meconium; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; ETHYL MYRISTATE; ETHYL STEARATE; OLEIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; PALMITIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCURONIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HAIR; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOMARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; GLUCURONATES; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MECONIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84958743166     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0516     Document Type: Article

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