Abnormal bone composition female juvenile American alligators from a pesticide-polluted lake (Lake Apopka, Florida)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-362

  Lind, P Monica ^a   Milnes, Matthew R ^b   Lundberg, Rebecca ^a   Bermudez, Dieldrich ^b   Örberg, Jan ^c   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alligator; Bone mineral density (BMD); EDCs; Endocrine disruption; Lake Apopka; Pesticides; Pollution; pQCT

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PESTICIDE; SEX HORMONE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHESIS; LAKE; LONG BONE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; ASPERULA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542686317     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6524     Document Type: Article

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