In vitro molecular mechanisms of bisphenol A action

Reproductive Toxicology - Tập 24 Số 2 - Trang 178-198 - 2007
Yelena B. Wetherill1,2, Benson T. Akingbemi3, Jun Kanno4, John A. McLachlan5, Ángel Nadal6, Carlos Sonnenschein7, Cheryl S. Watson8, R. Thomas Zoeller9, Scott M. Belcher10
1Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States
2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States
3Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, Auburn University, AL 36849, United States
4Division of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
5Department of Pharmacology and Environmental Endocrinology Lab, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States
6Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Elche 03202, Alicante, Spain
7Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, United States
8Biochemisty and Molecular Biology Department, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States
9Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, United States
10University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, Cincinnati, OH 45267, United States

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