What's your poison? Neurobehavioural consequences of exposure to industrial, agricultural and environmental chemicals

Is exposure to environmental or industrial endocrine disrupting estrogen-like chemicals able to cause genomic instability?

Human and wild life populations are continually exposed to a wide variety of environmental estrogen-like chemicals. Most research to date on environmental endocrine disrupting estrogen-like chemicals has focussed on screening of estrogenic activity of environmental or industrial chemicals, their bioaccumulative properties and toxicokinetics, and developing the structure-activity relationship be...

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Environmental chemicals impacting the thyroid: targets and consequences.

Thyroid hormone (TH) is essential for normal brain development, but the specific actions of TH differ across developmental time and brain region. These actions of TH are mediated largely by a combination of thyroid hormone receptor (TR) isoforms that exhibit specific temporal and spatial patterns of expression during animal and human brain development. In addition, TR action is influenced by di...

Environmental exposure to arsenic and chromium in an industrial area

Arsenic and chromium are widespread environmental contaminants that affect global health due to their toxicity and carcinogenicity. To date, few studies have investigated exposure to arsenic and chromium in a population residing in a high-risk environmental area. The aim of this study is to evaluate the exposure to arsenic and chromium in the general population with no occupational exposure to ...

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