Dioxins
"Dioxins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Chlorinated hydrocarbons containing heteroatoms that are present as contaminants of herbicides. Dioxins are carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic. They have been banned from use by the FDA.
| Descriptor ID |
D004147
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.231
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dioxins" by people in Profiles.
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Howell NL, Rifai HS. PCDD/F and PCB water column partitioning examination using natural organic matter and black carbon partition coefficient models. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2016 Apr; 23(7):6322-33.
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Balasubramani A, Rifai HS. Occurrence and distribution of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in industrial and domestic sewage sludge. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2015 Oct; 22(19):14801-8.
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Rifai HS, Lakshmanan D, Suarez MP. Mass balance modeling to elucidate historical and continuing sources of dioxin into an urban estuary. Chemosphere. 2013 Sep; 93(3):480-6.
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Yeager KM, Santschi PH, Rifai HS, Suarez MP, Brinkmeyer R, Hung CC, Schindler KJ, Andres MJ, Weaver EA. Dioxin chronology and fluxes in sediments of the Houston Ship Channel, Texas: influences of non-steady-state sediment transport and total organic carbon. Environ Sci Technol. 2007 Aug 01; 41(15):5291-8.