Prenatal PCB Exposure and Thymus Size at Birth in Neonates in Eastern Slovakia

BACKGROUND: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous environmental toxicants, for which animal studies demonstrate immunotoxic effects, including thymic atrophy and suppressed immune responses; human investigations of similar end points are sparse. The thymus is essential for the differentiat...

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Hauptverfasser: Park, Hye-Youn, Hertz-Picciotto, Irva, Petrik, Jan, Palkovicova, Lubica, Kocan, Anton, Trnovec, Tomas
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2008
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2199273/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197307
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9769
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