Sentences with phrase «endocrine disruptor research»

Selecting the appropriate rodent diet for endocrine disruptor research and testing studies.

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Some research suggests that BPA may act as an endocrine disruptor, a substance which mimics natural human hormones.

The interuniversity research team recently demonstrated that FM 550 is an endocrine disruptor, with developmental exposure affecting anxiety - and hyperactivity - related behaviors in rats in sex - specific ways.

The report, which drew heavily on two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshops held in 1995, also recommends more research on such topics as DNA biomarkers that can gauge an organism's exposure to endocrine disruptors; models for predicting how endocrine disruptors are metabolized; mechanisms of how endocrine disruptors act at a cellular level; and the effects of mixtures.

Research has shown BPA is an endocrine disruptor — a chemical that mimics, blocks or interferes with the body's hormones.

There was no connection between the assumptions of the toxicologists and those of the endocrinologists, developmental biologists, and the multi-disciplinarians doing the research needed to detect endocrine disruptors.

«Endocrine disruptors impair human sperm function, research finds.»

This organization never «delists» a chemical even in the face of any new research findings which show a chemical is not an endocrine disruptor.

The annual Gordon Research Conferences on Endocrine Environment Disruptors and the Copenhagen Workshops on Endocrine Disruptors began in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

Some manufacturers of consumer products have replaced BPA, another chemical found in plastics, after research has found it to be an endocrine disruptor that damages reproductive health, among other things.

This new research by the EWG reveals that the chemicals commonly used in sunscreen are endocrine disruptors, estrogenic and may interfere with thyroid and other hormone processes in the body.

Then, in 2013, a review of research in the journal Endocrine Disruptors found that it may be associated with obesity, cardiovascular disease and other conditions in adults.

«As research progresses, low sleep duration and poor sleep quality are increasingly recognized as endocrine disruptors,» said Eve Van Cauter, PhD, professor in medicine and director of the study.

Research continues to show that triclosan, along with chemicals like BPA and phthalates, are endocrine - disruptors having the potential to wreak havoc on the body's hormonal system.

In a 2006 report by the National Research Council of the National Academies it states, «Fluoride is an endocrine disruptor in the broad sense of altering normal endocrine function (9).»

According to the EWG, research has shown it to be an irritant, an endocrine disruptor, and as having respiratory effects.

Since fetal programming in PCOS is affected by so many factors ranging from androgens, AMH, insulin resistance, genetics and environmental endocrine disruptors, we still have much to learn and more research must be done.

Research into the fertility of sheep exposed to endocrine disruptors in the environment by Dr. Michelle Bellingham of the University of Glasgow found that abnormalities that could result in low sperm counts were found in the testes of 42 % of the animals, which led her to suggest that the rise in the use of in - vitro fertilization in humans, particularly as a result of low sperm counts, is due to exposure to these chemicals in the environment.