Clustering of sex hormone disruptors in Singapore's marine environment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1448-1453

  Gong, Yinhan ^a   Chin, Hong Soon ^a   Lim, Lis Sa Elissa ^a   Loy, Chong Jin ^a   Obbard, Jeffrey P ^a   Yong, E L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Androgen; Endocrine disruptor; Estrogen; Reporter gene bioassay; Seawater; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FRESH WATER; SEA WATER; SEX HORMONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GEOGRAPHY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGAPORE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141740550     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6139     Document Type: Article

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