Endocrine toxicants including 2,3,7,8-terachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and dioxin-like chemicals and endometriosis: Is there a link?

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part B: Critical Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 177-187

  Foster, Warren G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOLOGY; BODY FAT; CONTAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LAPAROSCOPY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; RATS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 41349094377     PISSN: 10937404     EISSN: 15216950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10937400701873456     Document Type: Review

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