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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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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Cognitive Deficits
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1990 The effects of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and related contaminants on the CNS function of infants born to women who had consumed Lake Michigan sports fish have been investigated in 236 children previously evaluated for PCB ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Polychlorinated biphenyls in air and water of the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. [PDF]
, 2008 Air and seawater samples were collected on board the R/V Polarstern during a scientific expedition from Germany to the Arctic Ocean during June–August 2004.
Rainer Lohmann +16 more
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Placental transfer of a hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyl and effects on fetal and maternal thyroid hormone homeostasis in the rat [PDF]
, 2002 Earlier studies at our laboratory indicated that several hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) detected in human blood could specifically inhibit thyroxine (T4) transport by competitive binding to the thyroid hormone transport protein ...
Bergman, A. +11 more
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Bacterial Degradation of PCB 70 and its Hydroxy Derivatives is an Environmentally Friendly Way to Destroy Pops [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 One of the problems of our time is the environmentally safe destruction of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and their hydroxylated derivatives. The aim of the study was to investigate the features and prospects of the decomposition of PCB 70 (2,5,3’,4 ...
Kir’yanova Tatyana D. +3 more
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Quantifying the importance of the atmospheric sink for polychlorinated dioxins and furans relative to other global loss processes. [PDF]
, 2006 Previous attempts to establish global mass balances for polychlorinated dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) have focused on the terrestrial sink, thereby neglecting deposition to the oceans and atmospheric losses.
Jones, Kevin C. +4 more
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Environment International, 2019 Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) ranks the most lethal skin cancer worldwide. However, other risk factors have been hardly explored, aside from ultraviolet radiation (UVR).
Junjie Cao +3 more
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‘New’ unintentionally produced PCBs in the Arctic
Emerging Contaminants, 2019 Contamination of the Arctic by legacy polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) is well documented, but the more recent discovery of unintentionally produced (UP) PCBs in the Arctic is a cause for concern.
Paul W. Bartlett +2 more
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RADIATION DEGRADATION OF PCBS IN SEDIMENTS: COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2016 Polychlorinated biphenyls are toxic compounds which have accumulated in river sediments in Eastern Slovakia. Bioaccumulation could cause even cancer.
Ľubica Darážová +4 more
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Toxicity and risk evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyls in River Otamiri, Imo State
Scientific African, 2023 Polychlorinated biphenyls are a family of dangerous, long-lasting chemicals that can be detrimental to human health and also have a significant propensity to build up in the environment as organic pollutants.
Victor C. Eze +3 more
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