Dietary phytoestrogens and their role in hormonally dependent disease

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 349-354

  Strauss, Leena ^a   Santti, Risto ^a   Saarinen, Niina ^a   Streng, Tomi ^a   Joshi, Suresh ^a   Mäkelä, Sari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupters; Phytoestrogen

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHYTOESTROGEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIET; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0032440431     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00332-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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