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Teeth as a biomarker of past chemical exposure

Arora, Manish, Austin, Christine·2013·Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Accurate prenatal exposure assessment is one of the major challenges in environmental epidemiologic studies. Variations in placental transport make maternal biospecimens unreliable for many chemicals and fetal specimens collected at birth do not provide information on exposure timing over the prenatal period. RECENT FINDINGS: The skeletal compartment is an important chemical repository, making calcified tissues important for measuring exposure. For decades teeth have been used to estimate long-term cumulative exposure to metals and some organic chemicals. Recently developed methodologies that combine sophisticated histological and chemical analysis to precisely sample tooth layers that correspond to specific life stages have the potential to reconstruct exposure in the second and third trimesters of prenatal development and during early childhood. SUMMARY: Such a retrospective biomarker that precisely measures exposure intensity and timing during prenatal development would substantially aid epidemiologic investigations, particularly case-control studies of rare health outcomes.

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  • The tooth-matrix biomarkers are recently developed and rigorously validated, and objectively reconstruct fetal and early postnatal exposure to multiple metals with detailed temporal resolution.

    “The teeth samples we collected from the twins were analysed using recently developed and rigorously validated tooth-matrix biomarkers, which objectively reconstruct fetal and early postnatal exposure to multiple metals with detailed temporal resolution141516171819.”

    From Fetal and postnatal metal dysregulation in autism (2017) · cites this paper as [14]

  • The tooth-matrix biomarkers provide time-series data from the second trimester onwards on multiple metal exposures.

    “We have developed these direct fetal biomarkers that can be collected at the time of diagnosis in childhood and provide time-series data from the second trimester onwards on multiple metal exposures (overview of these biomarkers shown in Fig. 2)14.”

    From Fetal and postnatal metal dysregulation in autism (2017) · cites this paper as [14]

  • The observed metal distributions were in agreement with previous studies using tooth-matrix biomarkers.

    “The observed metal distributions were in agreement with previous studies using tooth-matrix biomarkers1419.”

    From Fetal and postnatal metal dysregulation in autism (2017) · cites this paper as [14]

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Authors
Arora, M., & Austin, C.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of Technology Sydney (AU)
Corresponding author
Arora, Manish
Venue
Current Opinion in Pediatrics
Published
2013-04
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
261-267
ISSN
1040-8703 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2091291773
Cited by
114
References
70
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Pediatrics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (K99ES019597)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
Keywords
prenatal chemical exposure, dental histology, exposure timing, metals, organic compounds, calcified tissues, retrospective exposure assessment, placental transport, early childhood exposure, case-control study
MeSH terms
Child, Environmental Exposure, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Pollutants, Female, Humans, Metals, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Tooth, Deciduous, Case-Control Studies

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