Potential effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) on immune cells and blood biochemistry measures: A cross-sectional assessment of the NHANES 2003-2004 data

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Serdar, Berrin ^a   LeBlanc, William G ^b   Norris, Jill M ^a   Miriam Dickinson, L ^b  

^a Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood count; Immunotoxicity; NHANES; Organochlorine pesticides; PCBs

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIOXIN LIKE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LIVER ENZYME; MIREX; NON DIOXIN LIKE; NONACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DIOXIN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PCB; SERUM; TOXICITY TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PESTICIDES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84965189513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-114     Document Type: Article

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