The effects of metals as endocrine disruptors

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

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 206-223

  Iavicoli, Ivo ^a   Fontana, Luca ^a   Bergamaschi, Antonio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CORTICOTROPIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LEAD; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MANGANESE; MERCURY; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; ZINC; HEAVY METAL;

ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 66549118825     PISSN: 10937404     EISSN: 15216950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10937400902902062     Document Type: Review

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