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PCB congeners, hexachlorobenzene, and organochlorine insecticides in human fat in Italy.
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This article is published in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.The article was published on 1986-05-01. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hexachlorobenzene & Human fat.read more
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Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in human adipose tissue.
TL;DR: For many years, residues of halogenated organic compounds have been detected in the human adipose tissue of individuals in a number of countries, including those in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as in the U.S. and some foreign countries, and have been used as an index of the level of general population exposure of these compounds over time.
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Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl residues in foodstuffs and human tissues from china: status of contamination, historical trend, and human dietary exposure.
Haruhiko Nakata,M. Kawazoe,Koji Arizono,Shin Ichi Abe,Takeshi Kitano,Hideaki Shimada,W. Li,X. Ding +7 more
TL;DR: The first report to present the residue levels of persistent organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in human tissues of China is presented, suggesting the greater concentrations of DDTs and HCHs in Chinese people might be due to past extensive usage of these compounds as agricultural pesticides.
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Review: Biological Activity, Determination and Occurrence of Planar, Mono- and Di-Ortho PCBs
TL;DR: Some of the 209 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are stereochemically similar to the planar 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and, because of this similarity, exert biochemical activity and toxicity comparable to that of TCDD as mentioned in this paper.
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Polychlorinated biphenyls in the environment
TL;DR: This review surveys the problems arising from the release of PCBs into the environment from the point of view of the analytical chemist and pays prominent attention to congener-specific analyses of "toxic" congeners using high-resolution gas chromatography and to toxicity-assessing biological methods.
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Levels and chiral signatures of persistent organochlorine pollutants in human tissues from Belgium.
TL;DR: Results are consistent with the order of half-life of these congeners in humans and indicate that a steady state had been reached in these subjects.
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Polychlorobiphenyl (PCB) congeners,p,p′-DDE, and hexachlorobenzene in maternal and fetal cord blood from mothers in upstate New York
TL;DR: Although the concentration of the majority of congeners,p,p′-DDE and hexachlorobenzene correlated in maternal and fetal cord blood, 2,5,2′,5′-tetrachlorOBiphenyl and Hexachlorabenzene crossed the placenta preferentially, which indicates that the women surveyed are less contaminated than women surveyed elsewhere in the U.S.
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Polychlorinated biphenyls in human adipose tissue
TL;DR: Although the origin of the PCB compounds found in the adipose tissue is ununknown, the data are presented as a description of the gas chromatographic-mass spectrophotometric behavior of PCB and of the analytical methodology applicable to the analysis of these compounds in human tissues by gas chromatography- mass spectrometry.
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Disposition of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in occupationally exposed persons.
TL;DR: PCB congeners with chlorines in both 4-positions of the biphenyl ring were the major components in plasma and adipose tissue and had higher adipose-plasma partition than those with unsubstituted 3,4-pos positions, regardless of the degree of chlorination.
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