Effects of plasticizers and their mixtures on estrogen receptor and thyroid hormone functions

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-77

  Ghisari, Mandana ^a   Bonefeld Jorgensen, Eva Cecilie ^a  

^a Unit of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruptors; ER transactivity; Estrogenic; Plasticizers; T screen; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYBIPHENYL; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOL; 4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; CHLOROCRESOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHTHALIC ACID BENZYL BUTYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIOCTYL ESTER; PLASTICIZER; RESORCINOL; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLASTICIZERS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

RATTUS;

EID: 67349117359     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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