Neuroendocrine targets of endocrine disruptors

Hormones

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-27

  Gore, Andrea C ^a,b  

^a Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Epigenetic; Fetal basis of adult disease; GnRH; Hypothalamus; Sex differences; Thyroid; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

BODY GROWTH; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 77950415000     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1249     Document Type: Review

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