Prenatal Ambient Air Pollution, Placental Mitochondrial DNA Content, and Birth Weight in the INMA (Spain) and ENVIR ON AGE (Belgium) Birth Cohorts | Zendy

Diana B.P. Clemente | Zendy; Maribel Casas | Zendy; Nadia Vilahur | Zendy; Haizea Begiristain | Zendy; Mariona Bustamante | Zendy; AnneElie Carsin | Zendy; Mariana F. Fernández | Zendy; Frans Fierens | Zendy; Wilfried Gyselaers | Zendy; Carmen Íñiguez | Zendy; Bram G. Janssen | Zendy; Wouter Lefebvre | Zendy; Sabrina Llop | Zendy; Nicolás Olea | Zendy; Marie Pedersen | Zendy; Nicky Pieters | Zendy; Loreto SantaMarina | Zendy; Ana Souto | Zendy; Adonina Tardón | Zendy; Charlotte Vanpoucke | Zendy; Martine Vrijheid | Zendy; Jordi Sunyer | Zendy; Tim S. Nawrot | Zendy

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Prenatal Ambient Air Pollution, Placental Mitochondrial DNA Content, and Birth Weight in the INMA (Spain) and ENVIR ON AGE (Belgium) Birth Cohorts

Author(s) -

Diana B.P. Clemente,

Maribel Casas,

Nadia Vilahur,

Haizea Begiristain,

Mariona Bustamante,

AnneElie Carsin,

Mariana F. Fernández,

Frans Fierens,

Wilfried Gyselaers,

Carmen Íñiguez,

Bram G. Janssen,

Wouter Lefebvre,

Sabrina Llop,

Nicolás Olea,

Marie Pedersen,

Nicky Pieters,

Loreto SantaMarina,

Ana Souto,

Adonina Tardón,

Charlotte Vanpoucke,

Martine Vrijheid,

Jordi Sunyer,

Tim S. Nawrot

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1408981

Subject(s) - birth weight , pregnancy , mitochondrial dna , interquartile range , biology , cohort , fetus , obstetrics , physiology , medicine , demography , andrology , genetics , gene , sociology

Mitochondria are sensitive to environmental toxicants due to their lack of repair capacity. Changes in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content may represent a biologically relevant intermediate outcome in mechanisms linking air pollution and fetal growth restriction.

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