Effects of pesticides and toxic substances on behavioral and morphological reproductive development: Endocrine versus nonendocrine mechanisms

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-184

  Gray, Leon Earl ^a   Ostby, Joseph ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; DIOXIN; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; METHOXYCHLOR; PESTICIDE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENITALIA; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; PUBERTY; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 6844249435     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074823379801400111     Document Type: Article

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