Stepping backward to improve assessment of PCB congener toxicities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 171-189

  Hansen, Larry G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Ah receptor; Airborne; Aroclor; Breast milk; Cytochromes P450; Endocrine disruption; Estrogenic; Fish; Neurotoxicity; PCB; Residue; Risk assessment; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

DATA ANALYSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

EID: 0031956728     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106s1171     Document Type: Review

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