Environmental contaminants and endocrine disruptors;Contaminantes ambientais e os interferentes endócrinos

Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-16

  Fontenele, Eveline Gadelha Pereira ^a   Manoel, Ricardo Alves Martins ^a   Quidute, Ana Rosa Pinto ^a   Montenegro Jr , Renan Magalhães ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambient pollutants; Endocrine disease; Endocrine disruptor; Mechanism of action; Review

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; POLLUTANT;

CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; POLLUTANT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TOXICITY;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS;

EID: 77952863553     PISSN: 00042730     EISSN: 16779487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302010000100003     Document Type: Review

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