Exposure to nonpersistent insecticides and male reproductive hormones

Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-68

  Meeker, John D ^a   Ryan, Louise ^a   Barr, Dana B ^b   Hauser, Russ ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 NAPHTHOL; 2 HYDROXY 3,5,6 TRICHLORPYRIDINE; ANDROGEN; CARBARIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHLORPYRIFOS METHYL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; INSECTICIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NAPHTHALENE; PYRIDINOL; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-NAPHTHOL; 3,5,6-TRICHLORO-2-PYRIDINOL; INHIBIN; NAPHTHOL DERIVATIVE; PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLITE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; BLOOD; UNITED STATES; URINE;

ADULT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; INSECTICIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NAPHTHOLS; PYRIDONES; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33644875222     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000190602.14691.70     Document Type: Article

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