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Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances exposure and gut microbiota of infants: A prospective cohort study

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) has been reported to be linked to a series of adverse health outcomes in mothers and their children.
Honglei Ji, Min Guo, Fen Yang, Hong Liang, Ziliang Wang, Yao Chen, Huajun Zheng, Maohua Miao, Wei Yuan   +8 more
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Hunting Metabolic Biomarkers for Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Review

Metabolites
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent a class of persistent synthetic chemicals extensively utilized across industrial and consumer sectors, raising substantial environmental and human health concerns.
Xue Ma, Delei Cai, Qing Chen, Zhoujing Zhu, Shixin Zhang, Ziyu Wang, Zhengyan Hu, Haitao Shen, Zhen Meng   +8 more
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A Review of Analytical Methods and Technologies for Monitoring Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Water [PDF]

, 2023
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) consist of a range of manufactured fluorinated chemicals that are used in a variety of household and waterproofing products, industrial processes, and firefighting foams.
Kamrun Nahar, Robert K. Niven, Nahar, Kamrun, Noor Azwa Zulkarnain, Zulkarnain, Noor Azwa, Niven, Robert K.   +5 more
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: problematic emerging pollutants of aquatic environment [PDF]

Archives of Environmental Protection, 2020
Per- and polyfl uoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are human-invented chemicals that were created in the middle of the 20th century. They were synthesized for the fi rst time in 1949, and because of their exceptional surfactant properties, they have been ...
Mariusz Grabda, Sylwia Oleszek, Michiaki Matsumoto   +2 more
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Fetal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water and congenital malformations: A nation-wide register-based study on PFAS in drinking water

Environment International
Background: Teratogenic properties of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been assessed in a few studies, however, epidemiological evidence for an association is inconclusive.
Melle Säve-Söderbergh, Irina Gyllenhammar, Tessa Schillemans, Emelie Lindfeldt, Carolina Vogs, Carolina Donat-Vargas, Emma Halldin Ankarberg, Anders Glynn, Lutz Ahrens, Emilie Helte, Agneta Åkesson   +10 more
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Association between urinary per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and COVID-19 susceptibility

Environment International, 2021
Background and Objective: The growing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the urgency of identifying individuals most at risk of infection. Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are manufactured fluorinated chemicals widely used in many
Junjun Ji, Lingyan Song, Jing Wang, Zhiyun Yang, Haotian Yan, Ting Li, Li Yu, Lingyu Jian, Feixiang Jiang, Junfeng Li, Jinping Zheng, Kefeng Li   +11 more
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Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Risk of Psoriasis: A Population-Based Study

Toxics
PFAS are a group of synthetic chemicals that have been reported to be associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the relationship of PFAS exposure with psoriasis risk has not been reported. Utilizing data from the 2003–2018 NHANES, we explored the
Qing Zhang, Mengyue Zhang, Cunxi Zhao
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Harnessing Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Automatically Predict Bioactivities of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) [PDF]

, 2022
Many per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) pose significant health hazards due to their bioactive and persistent bioaccumulative properties. However, assessing the bioactivities of PFASs is both time-consuming and costly due to the sheer number and
Zulfikhar, Ali, Bryan, Wong, Hyuna, Kwon
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Fact Sheet : Per– and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) [PDF]

This fact sheet contains information about Per– and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and drinking water in South ...
South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Bureau of Water
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Distribution of Legacy and Emerging PFASs in a Terrestrial Ecosystem Located near a Fluorochemical Manufacturing Facility

Toxics
This study investigated the distribution of 29 legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in soil, nettles, invertebrates, and plasma and feathers of great tits (Parus major) of a terrestrial ecosystem near a fluorochemical plant ...
Jodie Buytaert, Marcel Eens, Lieven Bervoets, Thimo Groffen   +3 more
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