Hair and Nails as Noninvasive Biomarkers of Human Exposure to Brominated and Organophosphate Flame Retardants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3065-3073

  Liu, Liang Ying ^a   He, Ka ^a   Hites, Ronald A ^a   Salamova, Amina ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BODY FLUIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ALTERNATIVE FLAME RETARDANTS; BIOMONITORING STUDIES; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE ESTERS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE FLAME RETARDANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE; TRIS(1 ,3-DICHLORO-2-PROPYL) PHOSPHATE;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

2 ETHYLHEXYL 2,3,4,5 TETRABROMOBENZOATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DI(2 ETHYLHEXYL)TETRABROMOPHTHALATE; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOBROMINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE; TRIS(1,3 DICHLORO 2 PROPYL)PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAIR; HEALTH RISK; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SERUM;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NAIL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; HAIR; HALOGENATION; INDIANA; PROCEDURES;

BLOOMINGTON; INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLAME RETARDANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HALOGENATION; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; NAILS; ORGANOPHOSPHATES;

EID: 84961839449     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05073     Document Type: Article

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