Prenatal Ambient Air Pollution, Placental Mitochondrial DNA Content, and Birth Weight in the INMA (Spain) and ENVIRONAGE (Belgium) Birth Cohorts
- Clemente, Diana B P
- Casas, Maribel
- Vilahur, Nadia
- Begiristain, Haizea
- Bustamante, Mariona
- Carsin, Anne-Elie
- Fernández, Mariana F
- Fierens, Frans
- Gyselaers, Wilfried
- Iñiguez, Carmen
- Janssen, Bram G
- Lefebvre, Wouter
- Llop, Sabrina
- Olea, Nicolás
- Pedersen, Marie
- Pieters, Nicky
- Santa Marina, Loreto
- Souto, Ana
- Tardón, Adonina
- Vanpoucke, Charlotte
- Vrijheid, Martine
- Sunyer, Jordi
- Nawrot, Tim
Publication date
May 2016
DOI Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Journal
0091-6765Abstract
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.status: publishe
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