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Adrenocortical Response to Stress and Thyroid Hormone Status in Free-Living Nestling White Storks (Ciconia ciconia) Exposed to Heavy Metal and Arsenic Contamination

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Endocrine parameters have proven useful in the detection of early or low-level responses to pollutants. Although most of the studies on endocrine modulation have been focused on processes involving gonadal steroids, contaminants may target other parts of the endocrine system as...

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Autores principales: Baos, Raquel, Blas, Julio, Bortolotti, Gary R., Marchant, Tracy A., Hiraldo, Fernando
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17035132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9099