Pesticides: Multiple mechanisms of demasculinization

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-5

  LeBlanc, Gerald A ^a   Bain, Lisa J ^a   Wilson, Vickie S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotransformation; Demasculinization; Endocrine; Feminization; Pesticides; Receptors; Steroid hormones; Synergism

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PESTICIDE; STEROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMINIZATION; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PESTICIDES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0031034259     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03968-8     Document Type: Article

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