Exposure Assessment to Environmental Chemicals in Children from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 657-670

  Ochoa Martinez, Angeles C ^a,b   Orta Garcia, Sandra T ^a,b   Rico Escobar, Edna M ^c   Carrizales Yañez, Leticia ^a,b   Del Campo, Jorge D Martin ^a,b   Pruneda Alvarez, Lucia G ^a,b   Ruiz Vera, Tania ^a,b   Gonzalez Palomo, Ana K ^a,b   Piña Lopez, Iris G ^d   Torres Dosal, Arturo ^e   Pérez Maldonado, Ivan N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

^d Hospital General de Zona IMSS   (Mexico)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 HYDROXYPYRENE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ARSENIC; CREATININE; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; DICOFOL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; LIPID; MERCURY; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLLUTANT;

BIOMONITORING; BLOOD; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ETHYLENE; HEAVY METAL; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEBROMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEAVY METAL BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLISM; MEXICO; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL; POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHIHUAHUA [MEXICO]; JUAREZ; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO;

EID: 84961212924     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-016-0273-9     Document Type: Article

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