Antibiotics may act as growth/obesity promoters in humans as an inadvertent result of antibiotic pollution?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-16

  Ternak, Gabor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVOPARCIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; SPIRAMYCIN; TYLOSIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING; GROWTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OBESITY; POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BODY MASS INDEX; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OBESITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 7944220983     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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