Implications of mercury concentrations in umbilical cord tissue in relation to maternal hair segments as biomarkers for prenatal exposure to methylmercury

Environmental Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2016, Pages 282-287

  Sakamoto, Mineshi ^a,e   Murata, Katsuyuki ^b   Domingo, José L ^c   Yamamoto, Megumi ^a   Oliveira, Ricardo B ^d   Kawakami, Shoichi ^e   Nakamura, Masaaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO OESTE DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

^e Fukuda Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Maternal blood; Maternal hair segments; Mercury; Methylmercury; Umbilical cord tissue

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAIR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; PARTURITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY BURDEN; DRY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FETUS BLOOD; JAPAN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HAIR; HUMANS; JAPAN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UMBILICAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964798387     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.04.023     Document Type: Article

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