Assessment of styrene oligomers eluted from polystyrene-made food containers for estrogenic effects in in vitro assays

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1233-1241

  Ohno, K ^a   Azuma, Y ^a   Nakano, S ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Hirano, S ^a   Nobuhara, Y ^a   Yamada, T ^a  

^a Shiga 525 0055   (Japan)

Author keywords

E SCREEN; Estrogen receptor binding assay; Food container; Luciferase reporter gene assay; MCF 7; Polystyrene; Styrene dimer; Styrene monomer; Styrene trimer

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LUCIFERASE; OLIGOMER; STYRENE; STYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; LUCIFERASES; POLYSTYRENES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STYRENES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 0034764913     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(01)00071-0     Document Type: Article

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