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- Title
Human breast milk contamination with phthalates and alterations of endogenous reproductive hormones in infants three months of age.
- Authors
Main, Katharina M; Mortensen, Gerda K; Kaleva, Marko M; Boisen, Kirsten A; Damgaard, Ida N; Chellakooty, Marla; Schmidt, Ida M; Suomi, Anne-Maarit; Virtanen, Helena E; Petersen, Dajørgen Vid H; Andersson, Anna-Maria; Toppari, Jorma; Skakkebaek, Niels E
- Abstract
Phthalates adversely affect the male reproductive system in animals. We investigated whether phthalate monoester contamination of human breast milk had any influence on the postnatal surge of reproductive hormones in newborn boys as a sign of testicular dysgenesis.
- Publication
Environmental health perspectives, 2006, Vol 114, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.8075