Toxic effects of the easily avoidable phthalates and parabens

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 190-196

  Crinnion, Walter J ^a  

^a Southwest College Naturopathic Med   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; 4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; ADHESIVE AGENT; ANTIPERSPIRANT AGENT; BENZYL PARABEN; BUTYL PARABEN; COSMETIC; CREATININE; DI ISOBUTYL PHTHALATE; ESTROGEN; ETHYL PARABEN; FRAGRANCE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; INSECTICIDE; METHYL PARABEN; MONO N BUTYL PHTHALATE; MONO[2 ETHYL 5 HYDROXYHEXYL]PHTHALATE; MONO[2 ETHYL 5 OXYHEXYL]PHTHALATE; PHTHALIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIMETHYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID ISOBUTYL ESTER; PLASTICIZER; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; PROPYL PARABEN; SHAMPOO; SULFOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER TISSUE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; CYTOTOXICITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MORTALITY; FOOD; FOOD PACKAGING; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LEIOMYOMA; LEYDIG CELL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MITOCHONDRIAL TOXICITY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DYSGENESIS; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; COSMETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFERTILITY; NEOPLASMS; PARABENS; PHTHALIC ACIDS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77957993566     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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