Mammalian development in a changing environment: Exposure to endocrine disruptors reveals the developmental plasticity of steroid-hormone target organs

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-75

  Markey, Caroline M ^a   Coombs, Macall A ^a   Sonnenschein, Carlos ^a   Soto, Ana M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTROGEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; MAMMAL;

ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHENOLS; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037263542     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03011.x     Document Type: Article

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