Low-Dose Effects of Hormones and Endocrine Disruptors

Vitamins and Hormones

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 129-165

  Vandenberg, Laura N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effect; Chemical mixture; Epidemiology; Estrogen; Guideline study; Intrauterine position; NOAEL; Nonmonotonic dose response; Risk assessment; Xenoestrogen

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; XENOESTROGEN;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MIXTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE GLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GUIDELINE STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE POSITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOAEL; NONMONOTONIC DOSE RESPONSE; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADVERSE EFFECT; CHEMICAL MIXTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTROGEN; GUIDELINE STUDY; INTRAUTERINE POSITION; NOAEL; NONMONOTONIC DOSE RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; XENOESTROGEN;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HORMONES; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84891468717     PISSN: 00836729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800095-3.00005-5     Document Type: Chapter

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