Elevated sweat chloride levels due to arsenic toxicity

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 582-584

  Mazumdar, Maitreyi ^a   Christiani, David C ^b   Biswas, Subrata K ^c   Ibne Hasan, O Sharif ^d   Kapur, Kush ^a   Hug, Christopher ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^d Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ARSENIC; CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SPIROMETER; SWEAT TEST; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETICS; SWEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; CHLORIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SWEAT;

EID: 84964693506     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1413312     Document Type: Letter

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