"Flame Retardants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Materials applied to fabrics, bedding, furniture, plastics, etc. to retard their burning; many may leach out and cause allergies or other harm.
| Descriptor ID |
D005411
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.720.361
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| Concept/Terms |
Flame Retardants- Flame Retardants
- Retardants, Flame
- Fire Retardants
- Retardants, Fire
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Flame Retardants" by people in Profiles.
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Occurrence and ecological risk assessment of organophosphate esters in surface water from rivers and lakes in urban Hanoi, Vietnam. Chemosphere. 2023 Aug; 331:138805.
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Efficient hexabromocyclododecane-biodegrading microorganisms isolated in Taiwan. Chemosphere. 2021 May; 271:129544.
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Aerobic degradation and the effect of hexabromocyclododecane by soil microbial communities in Taiwan. Environ Int. 2020 12; 145:106128.
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Biodegradation of hexabromocyclododecane by Rhodopseudomonas palustris YSC3 strain: A free-living nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated in Taiwan. Chemosphere. 2020 May; 246:125621.
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Brominated flame retardants in placental tissues: associations with infant sex and thyroid hormone endpoints. Environ Health. 2016 Nov 25; 15(1):113.
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Development of an analytical method to quantify PBDEs, OH-BDEs, HBCDs, 2,4,6-TBP, EH-TBB, and BEH-TEBP in human serum. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2016 Apr; 408(10):2449-59.
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Brominated flame retardants, tetrabromobisphenol A and hexabromocyclododecane, activate mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in human natural killer cells. Cell Biol Toxicol. 2014 Dec; 30(6):345-60.
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Associations between serum levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and environmental and behavioral factors in pregnant women. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2013 Mar; 23(2):176-82.
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Associations between polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants, phenolic metabolites, and thyroid hormones during pregnancy. Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Oct; 119(10):1454-9.