Transplacental transfer of environmental genotoxins--polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-albumin in nonsmoking women.

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Transplacental transfer of genotoxic material has been determined by measuring the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-albumin adduct level in serum isolated from the mother and the umbilical cord blood using a competitive enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) and the antibody (8E11( against benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) tetrols. Smoking women (median = 5.54 fmol B[a]P eq/micrograms albumin; n = 21 cases) and...

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