Environmental chemicals impacting the thyroid: Targets and consequences

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 811-817

  Zoeller, R Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ISOFLAVONE; LIOTHYRONINE; PHTHALIC ACID; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THIOCYANATE; THIOURACIL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRICLOSAN;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH HAZARD; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHENOLS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 35348996982     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2007.0107     Document Type: Review

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