Environmental Exposures and Parkinson's Disease. [PDF]
, 2016 Parkinson's disease (PD) affects millions around the world. The Braak hypothesis proposes that in PD a pathologic agent may penetrate the nervous system via the olfactory bulb, gut, or both and spreads throughout the nervous system. The agent is unknown,
Litvan, Irene, Nandipati, Sirisha
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A New Method for Exposing Deposit Feeders to Contaminated Sediments for Food Chain Studies [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The ubiquity and refractory nature of certain organic compounds, such as chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB\u27s), results in their accumulation in aquatic sediments (Holdrinet et al. 1978, Peck et al.
Meier, Peter G, Roberts, Dale
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Chlorinated organic contaminants in breast milk of New Zealand women. [PDF]
, 1994 Breast milk samples from 38 women in New Zealand were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) as part of a World Health Organization ...
BATES, Michael N. +4 more
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Evaluation of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in fish of the Caspian Sea
MethodsX, 2020 Dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) have toxic properties for humans. The innovation of this study was that for the first time in Iran, 12 DL-PCBs concentration in 5 fish species: Rutilus frisii kutum kanesky, Chelon saliens, Vimba vimba ...
Ayub Ebadi Fathabad +6 more
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Persistent organic pollutant burden, experimental POP exposure and tissue properties affect metabolic profiles of blubber from grey seal pups [PDF]
, 2018 Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic, ubiquitous, resist breakdown, bioaccumulate in living tissue and biomagnify in food webs. POPs can also alter energy balance in humans and wildlife.
Bennett, Kimberley A. +5 more
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Attention Deficits
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996 The effects of in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on cognitive function in 212 children at 11 years of age were tested at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
J Gordon Millichap
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Molecules, 2022 Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) are a group of metabolites biotransformed from polychlorinated biphenyls by animals with higher toxicities than their parent compounds.
Wenyu Zhao +7 more
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Prenatal PCB and Dioxin and Cognitive Dysfunction
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1999 The effects of environmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and dioxins on cognitive abilities in Dutch children at 42 months of age were assessed at the Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Gordon Millichap
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Chemical signatures of the Anthropocene in the Clyde Estuary, UK: sediment hosted Pb, 207/206 Pb, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH), Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) and Polychlorinated Bipheny (PCB) pollution records [PDF]
, 2011 The sediment concentrations of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Pb and 207/206Pb isotope ratios were measured in seven cores from the middle Clyde estuary (Scotland, UK) with an aim ...
Chenery, S.R. +5 more
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Química Nova, 2004 Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and dibenzofuranes (PCDF) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are types of persistent and bioaccumulating organic pollutants with enhanced chronic toxicity and carcinogenic properties and can be considered as ...
Márcia de Souza Pereira
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