Effects of some persistent halogenated environmental contaminants on aromatase (CYP19) activity in the human choriocarcinoma cell line JEG-3

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-55

  Drenth, Henk Jan ^a   Bouwman, Carolien A ^a   Seinen, Willem ^a   Van Den Berg, Martin ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antiestrogenic; Aromatase; Cytochrome P450; Dioxin; PCB; Placenta; Toxaphene

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; DIOXIN; ESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL;

EID: 0031905827     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1997.8307     Document Type: Article

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