Overview of a workshop on screening methods for detecting potential (anti-) estrogenic/androgenic chemicals in wildlife

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-87

  Ankley, Gerald ^a   Mihaich, Ellen ^b   Stahl, Ralph ^b   Tillitt, Donald ^b   Colborn, Theo ^b   Mcmaster, Suzzanne ^b   Miller, Ron ^b   Bantle, John ^b   Campbell, Pamela ^b   Denslow, Nancy ^b   Dickerson, Richard ^b   Folmar, Leroy ^b   Fry, Michael ^b   Giesy, John ^b   Gray, L Earl ^b   Guiney, Patrick ^b   Hutchinson, Thomas ^b   Kennedy, Sean ^b   Kramer, Vincent ^b   Leblanc, Gerald ^b   Mayes, Monte ^b   Nimrod, Alison ^b   Patino, Reynaldo ^b   Peterson, Richard ^b   Purdy, Richard ^b   Ringer, Robert ^b   Thomas, Peter ^b   Touart, Les ^b   Van der Kraak, Glen ^b   Zacharewski, Tim ^b   more..

^a US Environ Proctection Agency   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Androgen; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Screening; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BINDING AFFINITY; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WILDLIFE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031984814     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<0068:OOAWOS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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