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May 28, 2019 · Banned in the U.S. since the early 1970s, synthetic estrogens such as DDT and PCBs continue to poison the environment, partially due to their ongoing use in developing countries and their ability to vaporize and drift across the globe.7.
May 1, 1997 · In all of these conditions, the risk is hypothetical, with no data yet proving a causal relationship between environmental estrogens and illness or disease in people. The claim that environmental estrogens are causing a decline in sperm counts has been especially contentious.
- David Feldman
- 1997
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Aug 21, 2018 · There are no regulations restricting the use of phthalates in the United States or in Brazil, but the European Community has banned phthalates. In the roster of phthalates, three esters are considered endocrine disruptors with estrogenic effects: DHEP (diethyl-hexyl phthalate), BBP (benzyl-butyl phthalate), and DBP (dibutyl phthalate).
- Mauri José Piazza, Almir Antônio Urbanetz
- 2019
Jul 20, 2021 · Sources of estrogens present in the environment and their simplified pathways leading to the environment (based on [ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ]). Occurring in the environment, they can lead to many negative consequences for health or the functioning of organisms directly or indirectly related to it.
- Konrad Wojnarowski, Paweł Podobiński, Paulina Cholewińska, Jakub Smoliński, Karolina Dorobisz
- 10.3390/ani11072152
- 2021
- Animals (Basel). 2021 Jul; 11(7): 2152.
May 1, 2012 · Environmental estrogens can be found in a wide variety of foods: phytoestrogens occur in plants such as clover and soy, while mycoestrogens are food contaminants produced by fungi. Meat, eggs and dairy products from animals given exogenous hormones contain relatively high concentration of estrogens.
- Cecilia Chighizola, Pier Luigi Meroni
- 2012
Jun 6, 2019 · Here, we will discuss the relationship between estrogen and breast cancer, the potential role of environmental estrogen mimics on breast cancer progression, and review the current understanding of suspected estrogenic EDCs on altering normal human physiology and estrogen regulated pathways.
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 abil...
