Effect of exposure to p,p′-DDE on male hormone profile in Mexican flower growers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-11

  Blanco Muñoz, Julia ^a   Lacasaña Navarro, Marina ^b,c   Aguilar Garduño, Clemente ^b   Rodríguez Barranco, Miguel ^b   Bassol, Susana ^d   Cebrián, Mariano E ^e   López Flores, Inmaculada ^b,c   Ruiz Pérez, Isabel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila School of Medicine of Torreon Autonomous University of Coahuila   (Mexico)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FLORICULTURE; FLOWER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLOWERS; GONADAL HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICO; SEASONS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84355161806     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.059667     Document Type: Article

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