Disruption of male sex hormones with regard to pesticides: Pathophysiological and regulatory aspects

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 225-231

  Straube, Evamarie ^a   Straube, Wolfgang ^a   Krüger, Egon ^a   Bradatsch, Matthias ^a   Jacob Meisel, Margitta ^a   Rose, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Luteinizing hormone; T4 lymphocytes; T8 lymphocytes; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PESTICIDE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033000205     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(99)00051-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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