Environmental estrogens and obesity

Environmental Estrogens

John A. McLachlan and Steven F. Arnold n many ways, the story of the pesticide DDT is the story of America's attitude toward synthetic chemicals in the environment. DDT was the first of many new pesticides that people hoped would improve the quality of their lives, but gradually it became clear that such progress often had a cost. DDT was one of the first environmental chemical agents to*be ban...

Environmental estrogens.

The estrogenic equivalent analysis that Dr. Safe presented recently in EHP (103:346-351) is a welcome addition to the literature , and development of this toxicologic approach is an important step in evaluating new endpoints for environmental agents (1,2). The hormonal potential of chemical contaminants offers many opportunities for further research, including study of the environmental etiolog...

Disruption of Development by Environmental Estrogens: Adult Obesity and Metabolic Disease

The role of environmental estrogens and autoimmunity.

The prevalence of autoimmune diseases has significantly increased over the recent years. It has been proposed that this epidemiological evidence could be in part attributable to environmental estrogens, compounds that display estrogen-like activity and are ubiquitously present in the environment. Environmental estrogens can be found in a wide variety of foods: phytoestrogens occur in plants suc...

Topic 3.16 Environmental estrogens and sperm counts*

The term “environmental estrogen” refers to chemical substances that exhibit some degree of estrogen-like activity. The primary emphasis for potential adverse effects resulting from exposure to environmental estrogens is on in utero exposure because such exposure can occur during critical periods of organogenesis. Assessment of biological plausibility can be based, in part, on the extensive dat...