Flawed experimental design reveals the need for guidelines requiring appropriate positive controls in endocrine disruption research

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 612-613

  vom Saal, Frederick S ^a   Akingbemi, Benson T ^b   Belcher, Scott M ^c   Crain, David A ^d   Crews, David ^e   Guidice, Linda C ^f   Hunt, Patricia A ^g   Leranth, Csaba ^h   Myers, John Peterson ⁱ   Nadal, Angel ^j   Olea, Nicholas ^k   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^l   Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Schneyer, Alan ^m   Schoenfelder, Gilbert ⁿ   Sonnenschein, Carlos ^o   Soto, Ana M ^o   Stahlhut, Richard W ^p   Swan, Shanna H ^p   Vandenberg, Laura N ^q   Wang, Hong Sheng ^c   Watson, Cheryl S ^r   Welshons, Wade V ^a   Zoeller, Robert T ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MARYVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Environmental Health Sciences   (United States)

^j MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^o TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^q TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGENY; PUBLICATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 77954075822     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq048     Document Type: Letter

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