Endocrine biomarkers of early fetal loss in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) following exposure to dioxin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 707-713

  Guo, Yumei ^a   Hendrickx, Andrew G ^a   Overstreet, James W ^a   Dieter, Jacquelyn ^a   Stewart, Dennis ^a   Tarantal, Alice F ^a   Laughlin, Lisa ^a   Lasley, Bill L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIOXIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH HAZARD; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033037773     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.707     Document Type: Article

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