Environmental pollutants and the thyroid

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 801-813

  Pearce, Elizabeth N ^a   Braverman, Lewis E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

endocrine disruptors; organochlorine compounds; perchlorate; thyroid

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FURAN DERIVATIVE; IODINE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; LEAD; LIVER ENZYME; NITRATE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PERCHLORATE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PREALBUMIN; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; STYRENE DERIVATIVE; SUNSCREEN; THIOCYANATE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROXINE; TRICLOSAN;

BREAST MILK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FETUS OUTCOME; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETUS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; ISOFLAVONES; LEAD; LIVER; NITRATES; PERCHLORIC ACID; PHENOLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; STYRENES; SYMPORTERS; THIOCYANATES; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 72149107387     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2009.06.003     Document Type: Review

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