Hypospadias and endocrine disruption: Is there a connection?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1175-1183

  Baskin, Laurence S ^a   Himes, Katherine ^b   Colborn, Theo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiandrogens; Differentiation; External genitalia; Gene expression; Urogenital development

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; CHEMICAL AGENT; CHLORPHENOTANE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; LINURON; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PROCYMIDONE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; VINCLOZOLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0035199253     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.011091175     Document Type: Review

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