Comment on "lessons from endocrine disruption and their application to other issues concerning trace organics in the aquatic environment"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1084-1085

  Segner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

POLLUTANT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HAZARD; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 32344434761     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051791d     Document Type: Letter

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