Interaction of environmental chemicals with the estrogen and progesterone receptors from the oviduct of the American alligator.

M Vonier, P; A Crain, D; A McLachlan, J; J Guillette, L; F Arnold, S

doi:10.1289/ehp.961041318

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Interaction of environmental chemicals with the estrogen and progesterone receptors from the oviduct of the American alligator.

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Authors:

P M Vonier

D A Crain

J A McLachlan

Abstract

Reports of reproductive abnormalities in the American alligator from Lake Apopka, Florida, have been linked to a spill of DDT and other pesticides suspected of having hormonelike activity. To determine whether environmental chemicals had the potential to function as exogenous hormones in the America...

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