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May 28, 2019 · 7679. On a daily basis we consume and breathe environmental estrogens known to cause birth defects and cancer in animals. These substances are everywhere, in the milk and water we drink, the food we consume, in birth control pills, dental sealants, and plastics. Based on breast milk concentrations its estimated that at least 5% of all babies ...
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Recent evidence of high systemic absorption of sunscreen ingredients has raised concerns regarding the safety of sunscreen products. Oxybenzone (BP-3) and octinoxate (OMC), two common sunscreen ingredients, were recently banned in Key West and Hawaii due to their toxic effects on marine ecosystems. Their impact on human health requires a ...
- Susie Suh, Susie Suh, Christine Pham, Janellen Smith, Natasha A. Mesinkovska
- 10.1111/ijd.14824
- 2020
- 2020/09
May 1, 1997 · Furthermore, environmental antiestrogens would balance out many of the harmful effects of environmental estrogens . Using calculations of “estrogen equivalents,” he concludes that the exposure level to environmental estrogens is trivial in comparison with estrogen levels used in therapeutic settings and even thousands-fold lower than the flavonoid phytoestrogens in food that we routinely ...
- David Feldman
- 1997
Jul 20, 2021 · This phenomenon tied with anti-androgen pollutants present in water environment may further strengthen the negative effects of environmental estrogens on fish populations. On the other hand, publication by Green et al. [ 40 ] seems to contradict that feminization of fish males involved with anti-androgens and estrogens interaction takes place in natural environment.
- Konrad Wojnarowski, Paweł Podobiński, Paulina Cholewińska, Jakub Smoliński, Karolina Dorobisz
- 10.3390/ani11072152
- 2021
- Animals (Basel). 2021 Jul; 11(7): 2152.
Feb 4, 2021 · Increasing contamination of the environment by toxic compounds such as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is one of the major causes of reproductive defects in both sexes. Estrogen/androgen pathways are of utmost importance in gonadal development, determination of secondary sex characteristics and gametogenesis.
- Saira Amir, Syed Tahir Abbas Shah, Charalampos Mamoulakis, Anca Oana Docea, Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi, At...
- 10.3390/ijerph18041464
- 2021
- 2021/02
Jan 1, 2013 · A subset of the endocrine disruptors, including synthetic estrogens, natural products, commercial chemicals, industrial compounds, or by-products among which plastics, are known as environmental estrogens or xenoestrogens; they confer estrogenic potential (“estrogenicity”) translated as affinity to the estrogen receptors (ER) (α or β), thus ability to activate expression of estrogen ...
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Feb 9, 2018 · Many EDCs with estrogenic activity enter the aquatic environment via waste discharges and there are associations between exposures to specific environmental estrogens (e.g. the contraceptive ...
