Environmental estrogens and endocrine disruption: Importance of comparative endocrinology

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4267-4268

  Foster, Warren G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; HORMONE LIKE CHEMICAL; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; STEROID ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BINDING AFFINITY; BREAST CANCER; CRYPTORCHISM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HYPOSPADIAS; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SHORT SURVEY; TESTIS CANCER; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 50449106433     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0736     Document Type: Short Survey

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