Effects of selected phytoestrogens and their mixtures on the function of the thyroid hormone and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1008-1019

  Long, Manhai ^a   Krüger, Tanja ^a   Ghisari, Mandana ^a   Bonefeld Jørgensen, Eva Cecilie ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BIOCHANIN A; COUMESTROL; DAIDZEIN; DRUG METABOLITE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENTERODIOL; ENTEROLACTONE; EQUOL; FORMONONETIN; GENISTEIN; MATAIRESINOL; PHYTOESTROGEN; PINORESINOL; SECOISOLARICIRESINOL; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MIXTURE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; PHYTOESTROGENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84867764035     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2012.711419     Document Type: Article

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