Dioxins and endometriosis: A plausible hypothesis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-21

  Birnbaum, Linda S ^a,b   Cummings, Audrey M ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioxin; Endometriosis; Polychlorinated biphenyls; TCDD; Toxic equivalence

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; GROWTH FACTOR; HORMONE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURVIVAL; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036156048     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0211015     Document Type: Review

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