ToxSci Advance Access originally published online on February 23, 2005
Toxicological Sciences 2005 85(1):743; doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfi131
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Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Intrauterine Inflammation: A Unifying Hypothesis
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* Division of Neonatology, Ospedale Perrino, Brindisi, Italy;
Clinical Physiology Institute, National Research Council of Italy (IFC-CNR), Lecce Section, Italy;
Laboratory of General Physiology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Lecce; and
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Senese, Siena, Italy
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed at Division of Neonatology, Perrino Hospital, S.S. per Mesagne, 72100 Brindisi, Italy. Tel:+39-0831-537471; Fax:+39-0831537861. E-mail: gilatini@tin.it.
Received February 10, 2004; accepted February 13, 2005
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We read with great interest the recent paper by Xu et al. (2005)
, showing that phthalates alter rat placental essential fatty acids (EFA) homeostasis via peroxisome proliferator-activated