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Argelia Castaño
Researcher at Carlos III Health Institute
Publications - 131
Citations - 4309
Argelia Castaño is an academic researcher from Carlos III Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biomonitoring. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 95 publications receiving 3294 citations. Previous affiliations of Argelia Castaño include Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Non-invasive matrices in human biomonitoring: a review.
Marta Esteban,Argelia Castaño +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviews studies that measure Cd, Pb, Hg, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorination dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), poly chlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs),polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), organochlorine pesticides and phthalates in non-invasive mat
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The use of fish cells in ecotoxicology. The report and recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 47.
Argelia Castaño,Niels C. Bols,Thomas Braunbeck,Paul J. Dierickx,Marlies Halder,Boris Isomaa,Kazumi Kawahara,Lucy E. J. Lee,Carmel Mothersill,Peter Pärt,Guillermo Repetto,Juan Riego Sintes,Hans Rufli,Richard S. Smith,Chris M. Wood,Helmut Segner +15 more
TL;DR: This is the report of the forty-seventh of a series of workshops organised by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM), held in Angera, Italy, on 22–24 October 2001, under the co-chairmanship of Argelia Castaño and Helmut Segner.
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First steps toward harmonized human biomonitoring in Europe: Demonstration project to perform human biomonitoring on a European scale
Elly Den Hond,Eva Govarts,Hanny Willems,Roel Smolders,Ludwine Casteleyn,Marike Kolossa-Gehring,Gerda Schwedler,Margarete Seiwert,Ulrike Fiddicke,Argelia Castaño,Marta Esteban,Jürgen Angerer,Holger M. Koch,Birgit K. Schindler,Ovnair Sepai,Karen Exley,Louis Bloemen,Milena Horvat,Lisbeth E. Knudsen,Anke Joas,Reinhard Joas,Pierre Biot,Dominique Aerts,Gudrun Koppen,Andromachi Katsonouri,Adamos Hadjipanayis,Andrea Krsková,Marek Maly,Thit A. Mørck,Peter Rudnai,Szilvia Kozepesy,Maurice Mulcahy,Rory Mannion,Arno C. Gutleb,Marc E. Fischer,Danuta Ligocka,Marek Jakubowski,M. Fátima Reis,Sónia Namorado,Anca Elena Gurzau,Ioana-Rodica Lupsa,Katarina Halzlova,Michal Jajcaj,Darja Mazej,Janja Snoj Tratnik,Ana López,Estrella Lopez,Marika Berglund,Kristin Larsson,Andrea Lehmann,Pierre Crettaz,Greet Schoeters,Greet Schoeters +52 more
TL;DR: The project demonstrates the feasibility of a Europe-wide human biomonitoring framework to support the decision-making process of environmental measures to protect public health and takes the first steps to assess personal chemical exposures in Europe as a whole.
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Urinary BPA measurements in children and mothers from six European member states: Overall results and determinants of exposure
Adrian Covaci,Elly Den Hond,Tinne Geens,Eva Govarts,Gudrun Koppen,Hanne Frederiksen,Lisbeth E. Knudsen,Thit A. Mørck,Arno C. Gutleb,Cédric Guignard,Emanuelle Cocco,Milena Horvat,Ester Heath,Tina Kosjek,Darja Mazej,Janja Snoj Tratnik,Argelia Castaño,Marta Esteban,Francisco Cutanda,Juan José Ramos,Marika Berglund,Kristin Larsson,Bo Jönsson,Pierre Biot,Ludwine Casteleyn,Reinhard Joas,Anke Joas,Louis Bloemen,Ovnair Sepai,Karen Exley,Greet Schoeters,Jürgen Angerer,Marike Kolossa-Gehring,Ulrike Fiddicke,Dominique Aerts,Holger M. Koch +35 more
TL;DR: The individual BPA levels in children were significantly correlated with the levels in their mothers (r=0.265, p<0.001), which may suggest a possible common environmental/dietary factor that influences the biomarker level in each pair.
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Human biomonitoring as a tool to support chemicals regulation in the European Union.
Catherine Ganzleben,Jean-Philippe Antignac,Robert Barouki,Argelia Castaño,Ulrike Fiddicke,Jana Klánová,Erik Lebret,Nicolás Olea,Dimosthenis Sarigiannis,Greet Schoeters,Ovnair Sepai,Hanna Tolonen,Marike Kolossa-Gehring +12 more
TL;DR: Human biomonitoring is identifed as a tool that can serve the chemicals agenda by providing “authorities with a more comprehensive view of actual exposure of the population to pollutants, especially sensitive groups such as children, and can provide better evidence from guiding appropriate responses”.