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Endocrine System: Hormones, Testes, Ovaries, Adrenals, Pancreas, Endocrine Disrupting Hormones, Related Articles and Reports

 

A new window into hormone-altering chemicals

Accuracy of Thyroid Hormone Testing Improved With State-Of-The-Art Test

Adrenal Fatigue

Adrenal Fatigue Related Health Conditions  

Alteration of testicular steroidogenesis and histopathology of reproductive system in male rats treated with triclosan.

Altered stress-induced cortisol levels in goats exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB 126 and PCB 153) during fetal and
postnatal development

An Environmental Wide Association Study (EWAS) on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 

Antibacterial chemical disrupts hormone activities

Another chemical found to be harmful to boys.

Artificial Reproductive Technologies Make Sick Kids

Association of Thyroid Hormone Concentrations with Levels of Organochlorine Compounds in Cord Blood of Neonates

Barrier Capacity of Human Placenta for Nanosized Materials

Bisphenol A Exposure In Utero Disrupts Early Oogenesis in the Mouse

Bisphenol A most harmful to infants, study says

Bisphenol A vexations 

Blood levels of organochlorine pesticide residues and risk of reproductive tract cancer among women from Jaipur, India

Breathing dirty air may increase risk of diabetes.

Chemicals In Sunscreens May Disrupt Thyroid Hormones

Chemical may affect breast development

Chemicals might affect sperm counts CSU researchers suspect link between exposure, increasing impotence rates

Common Phthalate alters thyroid hormones in average men.

CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF CHEMICALS ON MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OVER PAST 50 YEARS

DDT breakdown chemical alters thyroid hormone function in pregnant women.  

DEHP Impairs Zebrafish Reproduction by Affecting Critical Factors in Oogenesis

Dangerous endocrine disruptors go largely unregulated

Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate metabolites may alter thyroid hormone levels in men.

Dibutyltin disrupts glucocorticoid receptor function and impairs glucocorticoid-induced suppression of cytokine production.

Diisobutyl phthalate impairs the androgen-dependent reproductive development of the male rat.

Dioxin Alters Development of Male Reproductive System

Dioxin causes ventral prostate agensis by disrupting dorsoventral patterning in developing mouse prostate.

Disorder linked to high levels of testosterone in womb

Distrusting the Disruptors

Do contaminants play a role in diabetes? Evidence is growing.

Dr. Eisenstein talks about Glycemic Index

Early menstruation linked to heart disease risk

Early Onset Endocrine Disruptor Induced Prostatitis in the Rat

Effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) replacement on lipoprotein profile in hypoadrenal women 

Effects of endocrine disruptors on obesity.

Endocrine disruptors-potential modulators of the immune system and allergic response

Environmental and experimental exposure of phthalate esters: The toxicological consequence on human sperm.

Environmental Effects on Human Reproduction

Environmental Estrogens Induce Mast Cell Degranulation and Enhance IgE-mediated Release of Allergic Mediators

Environmental exposures can have an impact on whether men's 'boys' can swim

Environmental factors and autoimmune thyroiditis

Environmental factors and semen quality

Environmental Factors in Genitourinary Development.

Environmental oestrogens, cosmetics and breast cancer.

Environmental thyroid toxicants and child endocrine health.

EPA releases list of endocrine-disrupter candidates. A long-awaited list leaves much to be desired, say many stakeholders.

EPA Targets Chemicals, Estrogens

Epidemiologic evidence of relationships between reproductive and child health outcomes and environmental chemical contaminants.

Expert Panels Weigh Bisphenol-A Risks

Exposure to chemical may affect genitals of baby boys

Exposure to Three Classes of Common Chemicals May Affect Female Development, Study Finds

Factsheet: Male infertility.

Fire Retardant Chemicals Linked to Lower TSH in Pregnancy

Gender-Bender Chemical in Household Cleaning Products

Gender-bender chemical probes targets PR firm

Gender-bending chemical timebomb fear for boys' fertility   

Gender gap in birth weight shrinking, study finds

Girl, Disrupted: Hormone Disruptors and Women's Reproductive Health

GIRLS GROW UP, AND OUT, SOONER

Girls now begin puberty aged 9

Hormone Allergy

House Dust Concentrations of Organophospate Flame Retardants in Relation to Hormone Levels and Semen Quality Parameters

Household Insecticides Appear In Umbilical Cord Blood

How Environmental Pollutants Are Causing Reproductive Problems

Human hormones, chemicals a bad mix

HUMANITY AT RISK: ARE THE MALES GOING FIRST?

Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Bisphenol A in Pregnant Women and Their Matching Fetuses: Placental Transfer and Potential Risks.

Hypothyroidism:  Optimizing Medication with Slow Release Compounded Thyroid Replacement

Hypothyroidism Reaches Epidemic Proportions, Causing Fatigue and Weight Gain

If You Have Carpal Tunnel Symptoms, Better Check Your Thyroid

Increased risk of diabetes and polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins: a 24-year follow-up study of the Yucheng cohort. 

Impact of endocrine disruptor chemicals in gynaecology.

Impact of low-level exposure to organophosphates on human reproduction and survival.

'Inherently toxic' chemical faces its future  (Bisphenol A )

Is Diabetes linked to environmental pollution?

It's official: Men really are the weaker sex. 

Low Testosterone Levels are Common and Associated with Insulin Resistance in Men with Diabetes.

Low Thyroid Hormone Increases Risk of Death from Heart Attack by Seventy Percent

Low Vitamin D Contributes to Thyroid Problems.

Male Infertility: Changing Conceptions Sometimes, the Problem Is Primarily His, Not Hers. And Its Cause Is Often Almost Invisible.

Male reproduction in a chemical world

Model-Based Therapeutic Correction of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Dysfunction

Mom's Job May Increase Risk of Birth Defects

Morgellons: Trisha Springstead Shares Her Treatment and Prevention Protocol  

Nanoparticle-rich diesel exhaust may disrupt testosterone biosynthesis and metabolism via growth hormone.

Neonatal exposure to bisphenol A alters reproductive parameters and gonadotropin releasing hormone signaling in female rats. 

New study suggests link between environmental toxins and early onset puberty in girls

New test of environmental factors may help with Type II diabetes and other major diseases

Nitrate intake and the risk of thyroid cancer and thyroid disease

Nitrate May Feed Thyroid Disorders

Obesity-A Chemical Reaction

Occurrence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in indoor dust.

Organophosphorus pesticide exposure decreases sperm quality: association between sperm parameters and urinary pesticide levels

PBDE concentrations in women's serum and fecundability.

Paint chemicals 'may harm sperm'

Paraben esters: review of recent studies of endocrine toxicity, absorption, esterase and human exposure, and discussion of potential human health risks.

Permethrin may disrupt testosterone biosynthesis via mitochondrial membrane damage of leydig cells in adult male mouse.

Persistent Organochlorine Pesticides and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.

Plasticizer related to lower hormone levels in men.

Plastics ingredient linked to smaller penises

Preliminary Study of Phthalate Exposure in Humans Finds Association with Sperm DNA Damage

Prenatal exposure to flame retardant is associated with increased risk of male genital anomalies

Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Alters Early Pancreatic Islet and Adipose Tissue Development with Consequences on the Control of Body Weight and Glucose Metabolism Later in Life

Relationship of Thyroid Hormone Levels to Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Lead, p,p´-DDE, and Other Toxicants in Akwesasne Mohawk Youth

Reproductive assessment of hydroalcohol extract of Calendula officinalis L. in Wistar rats

Reproductive disorders associated with pesticide exposure.

Reproductive Harm:  What you should know about your household cleaning products

Research Brief 157: SBRP Investigators Find Evidence Suggesting a New Type of Endocrine Disruptor

SSRI Antidepressants Linked To Male Infertility

Scientists to EPA: Risks of chemicals that alter male hormones should be analyzed together  

Silymarin protects PBMC against B(a)P induced toxicity by replenishing redox status and modulating glutathione metabolizing enzymes- an in vitro study.

Sperm Count Paranoia a Widespread Worry Factors From Environmental Chemicals to Laptops Foster Fertility Fears

Sperm defects caused by exposure to environmental toxins can be passed  down the generations, research suggests.

Synergistic Disruption of External Male Sex Organ Development by a Mixture of Four Antiandrogens

Testing for Endocrine Disruption

Testosterone production and spermatogenic damage induced by organophosphorate pesticides.

The challenge of reproductive and developmental toxicology under REACH

The disappearing male.

The infertility timebomb: Are men facing rapid extinction?

The prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in a population with borderline iodine deficiency.

The Thyroid and the Mind and  Emotions

The xenoestrogen bisphenol A inhibits postembryonic vertebrate development by antagonizing gene regulation by thyroid

Thyroid cancer survival in the United States: observational data from 1973 to 2005.

Thyroid disrupting chemicals: mechanisms and mixtures

Thyroid Hormone and Methylmercury Toxicity.

Thyroid Hormone Therapy Appears to Cause Breast Cancer

Thyroid Threat

Thyroid,  Depression and Mental Health Psychiatric, Psychological and Emotional  Aspects of Thyroid Disease i.e. it's not all in your  head!"

Toward a cleaner, more effective method for destroying hormone-like pollutants in wastewater

Toxic chemicals affect steroid hormones differently in humans and invertebrates  

Toxin in plastics harming unborn boys

Toxicogenomics and ecotoxicogenomics for studying endocrine disruption and basic biology

Trace arsenic in water may be linked with diabetes

Triclocarban enhances testosterone action: A new type of endocrine disruptor?

Underactive thyroid linked to pesticide exposure

What price would you put on your prostate, liver and fertility?

Why do Danes have smaller nuts than Finns—are toxins to blame?

Why Synthetic Estrogens Wreak Havoc On Reproductive System

Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment Workshop