Endocrine disruption overview: Are males at risk?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 545, Issue , 2004, Pages 189-201

  Colborn, Theo ^a  

^a WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIOXIN; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PROCYMIDONE; VINCLOZOLIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 2342463603     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8995-6_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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