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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 92, Issue 7, Pages 864-869Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.04.087
Keywords
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; In vitro fertilization; Culture mediuin; Protein source
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- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan
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The concentrations of 10 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in commercial culture media and protein sources (PSs) for in vitro fertilization (IVF) of human ova were investigated. Samples of 15 IVF media (IVFM), nine sperm preparation media (SPM), and six PSs were analyzed. PBDEs were detected in 10 IVFM, seven SPM, and all PS samples in ranges of 0.6-35, 0.9-31, and 7.5-385 pg g(-1), respectively. A dominant PBDE congener BDE-47 was detected in the PS and PS-supplemented samples. Our findings suggested that PS supplementation was the potential cause of PBDE-contamination of IVFM and SPM. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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