Risk assessment of endocrine disrupters: The role of toxicological studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 239-252

  Mantovani, Alberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Development; Fertility; Mechanisms of action; Prenatal development; Prepubertal stage; Two generation study

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; TOXICOLOGY;

RODENTIA;

EID: 33845637889     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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