Environmental contaminants and dietary factors in endometriosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 955, Issue , 2002, Pages 213-229

  Foster, Warren G ^a,b   Agarwal, Sanjay K ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models; Endometriosis; Monkeys; TCDD; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR; DIOXIN; ESTROGEN; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; STROMA; TOXICOLOGY; UTERUS CAVITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036221322     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02782.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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