Predicting health effects of exposures to compounds with estrogenic activity: Methodological issues

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages 655-663

  Rudel, Ruthann ^a  

^a SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Environmental estrogen; Estrogen; Mechanism; Pharmacokinetics; Phytoestrogen; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHYTOESTROGEN;

CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030924764     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s3655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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