Endocrine disruptors alter social behaviors and indirectly influence social hierarchies via changes in body weight

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Benjamin ^a   Colon, Eliezer ^a   Chawla, Shivansh ^a   Vandenberg, Laura N ^a   Suvorov, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

2,2,4,4 tetrabromodiphenyl ether; BDE 47; Bisphenol S; Body weight; BPS; Endocrine disruption; Sociability; Social dominance; Social status; TBBPA; Tetrabromobisphenol A

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; OIL; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A; XENOBIOTIC AGENT; 2,2',4,4'-TETRABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; BIS(4-HYDROXYPHENYL)SULFONE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; SULFONE;

BODY MASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHER; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBESITY; PHENOL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CD-1 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TETRAD TEST; WEIGHT CHANGE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MICE; PHENOLS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SULFONES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84938603674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-015-0051-6     Document Type: Article

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