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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2015 Sep 25;85:182–188. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.09.016

Table 2.

Comparisons of measured and predicted adipose concentrations from in vivo silicone implants, and from mouse and human data

p,p-DDE PCB118

Mousea
ng/g
Silicone
or Tissue
Silicone
Implants
Predicted
Adiposec
Measured
Ventral
Silicone
Implants
Predicted
Adiposec
Measured
Ventral

31–70 660–1500 730–1200 20–110 550–3000 710–1300

p,p-DDE

Humanb
ng/g
Silicone
or Tissue
Silicone
Implants
Predicted
Adiposec
Predicted
Adipose
(using mouse
data)
Median (range) measured adipose tissue in literature
Tabasco,
Mexicod (n=150)
Granada Province,
Spaine (n=387)
Antwerp,
Belgiumf (n=52)

1.2–34 25–680 26–740 877 (50–5000) 93 (2.0–2300) 141 (15–8399)
a

Mouse implants included all those in the SIL treatment group

b

Human implants included all those containing p,p′-DDE

c

Based on Dlipid-silicone ≈ 21.2 for p,p-DDE, and ≈ 27.7 for PCB118 from (Jahnke et al. 2008)