Consideration of enzyme and endocrine interactions in the risk assessment of PCBs

Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 71-156

  Li, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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