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Xenoestrogenic activity in blood of European and Inuit populations

Eva C Bonefeld-Jorgensen1*, Philip S Hjelmborg1, Thayaline S Reinert1, Birgitte S Andersen1, Vladimir Lesovoy2, Christian H Lindh3, Lars Hagmar3, Aleksander Giwercman4, Mogens Erlandsen5, Gian-Carlo Manicardi6, Marcello Spanò7, Gunnar Toft8 and Jens P Bonde8

Author Affiliations

1 Unit of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, Build. 1260, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

2 Regional Clynical Center of Urology and Nephrology, Kharkiv, Ukraine

3 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, SE-22185 Lund, Sweden

4 Scanian Fertility Centre, Malmö University Hospital, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden

5 Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, Build. 1260, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

6 Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Viale Kennedy 17, I-42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy

7 Section of Toxicology and Biomedical Sciences, BIOTEC-MED, ENEA Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, I-00060 Rome, Italy

8 Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Noerrebrogade 44, Build.2C, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

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Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:12 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-5-12

Published: 5 May 2006

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Title: Spearman's correlation analyses between xenoestrogenic serum activities and the level of CB-153 and p,p'-DDE. ln-transformed and POP lipid adjusted data was used. For definition of XER, XERcomp and XER-EEQ see legend to Table 2. Statistical significant data is given in bold. 1: Spearman's inter-correlation between CB-153 and p,p'-DDE, respectively.

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