Polychlorinated biphenyls, polychloronated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzofurans as endocrine disrupters - What we have learned from Yusho disease

Environmental Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-11

  Aoki, Yasunobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin; Endocrine disrupter; Polychlorinated biphenyl; Protein kinase; Yusho

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ANDROGEN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; THYROID HORMONE; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; DRUG DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; POLYCHLORODIBENZO-4-DIOXIN; VEGETABLE OIL;

ENDOCRINOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THYMUS ATROPHY; TOXICOKINETICS; TRANSACTIVATION; YUSHO DISEASE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JAPAN; RICE;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT OILS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0034744080     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.2001.4244     Document Type: Article

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