Critical windows of exposure for children's health: The reproductive system in animals and humans

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2000, Pages 491-503

  Pryor, Jon L ^a   Hughes, Claude ^b   Foster, Warren ^b   Hales, Barbara F ^c   Robaire, Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Germ cell; Oogenesis; Reproductive system; Spermatogenesis; Toxicant

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; CARBON DISULFIDE; CHLORDECONE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIBROMOCHLOROPROPANE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; INSECTICIDE; LEAD; METHADONE; MITOXANTRONE; MORPHINE; PREDNISONE; THALIDOMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GAMETOGENESIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033910450     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108s3491     Document Type: Article

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