Treatment of BG-1 ovarian cancer cells expressing estrogen receptors with lambda-cyhalothrin and cypermethrin caused a partial estrogenicity via an estrogen receptor-dependent pathway

Toxicological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 331-337

  Kim, Cho Won ^a   Go, Ryeo Eun ^a   Choi, Kyung Chul ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cyperemethrin; Endocrine disruption; Lambda cyhalothrin; Ovarian cancer; Pyrethroids; Xenograft models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959267074     PISSN: 19768257     EISSN: 22342753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5487/TR.2015.31.4.331     Document Type: Article

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