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Postweaning Exposure to Aflatoxin Results in Impaired Child Growth: A Longitudinal Study in Benin, West Africa

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a...

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Autores principales: Gong, Yunyun, Hounsa, Assomption, Egal, Sharif, Turner, Paul C., Sutcliffe, Anne E., Hall, Andrew J., Cardwell, Kitty, Wild, Christopher P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15345349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6954

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