Review of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) biomonitoring and epidemiology

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 768-786

  Burns, Carol J ^a   Swaen, Gerard M H ^b  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b DOW BENELUX B V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2,4 D; Biomonitoring; Cancer; Herbicide; Non Hodgkin lymphoma

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; HERBICIDE; HORMONE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENICITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE CANCER; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; URINE LEVEL; WHEEZING;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84866369725     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408444.2012.710576     Document Type: Review

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