Xenoendocrine disrupters - Environmental impacts

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 337-342

  Sumpter, John P ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Estrogens; Intersex fish; Xenoestrogens

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; NONYLPHENOL; PESTICIDE; TRIBUTYLTIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMINIZATION; FISH; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRILIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMANS; MALE; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0032576482     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00328-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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