Impact of exposure to endocrine disrupters in utero and in childhood on adult reproduction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 289-309

  Norgil Damgaard, Ida ^a   Maria Main, Katharina ^a   Toppari, Jorma ^b   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupters; Exposure; Human reproduction; Infertility; Male genital malformations; Precocious puberty; Sexual differentiation; Testicular cancer; Testicular development; Testicular dysgenesis syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; COSMETIC; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; LINURON; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PESTICIDE; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROCYMIDONE; VINCLOZOLIN; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; CARBENDAZIM; CHLOROFORM; COUMARIN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; GENISTEIN; HYDROXYFLUTAMIDE; ISOFLAVONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIGNAN; LUTEOLIN; MESTRANOL; PHTHALIC ACID BENZYL BUTYL ESTER; SEX HORMONE; SITOSTEROL; SPIRONOLACTONE; STILBENE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CRYPTORCHISM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POLLUTANT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPTOM; TESTIS CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WILDLIFE; ABORTION; BREAST CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL MALFORMATION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0036033453     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2002.0205     Document Type: Article

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