Endocrine disrupters: The new players able to affect the epigenome

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Casati, Lavinia ^a   Sendra, Ramon ^b   Sibilia, Valeria ^a   Celotti, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor (AR); Endocrine disruptors; Epigenetics; Histone demethylases; Jarid1b; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010217455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00037     Document Type: Review

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