The sensitivity of the child to sex steroids: Possible impact of exogenous estrogens

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 341-349

  Aksglaede, Lise ^a   Juul, Anders ^a   Leffers, Henrik ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a   Andersson, Anna Maria ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anabolic growth promoters; Endocrine disruptor; Estradiol; Prepubertal children; Threshold level

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FUNGICIDE; GROWTH HORMONE; HERBICIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELENGESTROL ACETATE; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PLASTICIZER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRENBOLONE; ZERANOL;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD GROWTH; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD COMPOSITION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY;

EID: 33745262607     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dml018     Document Type: Review

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