Pediatrics: Endocrine disruption and human health effects A call to action

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 633-634

  Sharpe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 80054893462     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.165     Document Type: Short Survey

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