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Unexpectedly long half-lives of blood 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran (PeCDF) levels in Yusho patients

BACKGROUND: Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds have half-lives typically between 7.2 years and 15 years. Our previous study of patients poisoned by extremely high concentrations of 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran (PeCDF) in the ‘Yusho incident’ in 1968 found that in some the half-life of blood 2,3,...

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Autores principales: Matsumoto, Shinya, Akahane, Manabu, Kanagawa, Yoshiyuki, Kajiwara, Jumboku, Mitoma, Chikage, Uchi, Hiroshi, Furue, Masutaka, Imamura, Tomoaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26384313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0059-y