Host: The Japanese Society of Toxicology
Name : The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology
Date : 2020 -
We investigate the association between telomere length (TL) and fetal PCB exposure.
The subjects were 94 mother-child pairs participating in a birth cohort, the Chiba study of Mother and Child Health. Maternal and cord blood (CB) were collected during pregnancy and at birth, respectively. Cord tissue was obtained at birth. TL was assessed by qPCR using genomic DNA extracted from cord tissue. The maternal and cord serum levels of PCB congeners were assessed using GC-MS in cord serum were detected. Serum levels in CB of PCB99 for all or females showed a positive association with TL.