Developing a marker of exposure to xenoestrogen mixtures in human serum

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages 647-654

  Soto, Ana M ^a   Fernandez, Mariana F ^a   Luizzi, Maria F ^a   Oles Karasko, Anita S ^a   Sonnenschein, Carlos ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BBP; BPA; DDD; Environmental exposure; Estradiol equivalents; p,p' DDE; PCBs; Xenoestrogens

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; MARKER;

BREAST CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0030994367     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s3647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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