The effects of PCB exposure and fish consumption on endogenous hormones

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1275-1283

  Persky, Victoria ^a,e   Turyk, Mary ^b   Anderson, Henry A ^c   Hanrahan, Lawrence P ^d   Falk, Claire ^a   Steenport, Dyan N ^a   Chatterton Jr , Robert ^b   Freels, Sally ^d  

^a Great Lakes Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Fish; Hormones; PCBs; Steroid; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ESTRONE SULFATE; FOLLITROPIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 18244405607     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.011091275     Document Type: Article

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