Sentences with phrase «endocrine disruptors alter»

Endocrine disruptors alter social behaviors and indirectly influence social heirarchies via changes in body weight.

He runs through a laundry list of factors that could amplify virus - driven disease mortality: fisheries shifting food chains, global warming, marine pollutant — triggered toxic algae blooms, marine pollution in the form of chemical contaminants, and endocrine disruptors altering the host — pathogen balance.

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«We believe that some of the classes of contaminants that are now in the environment, such as these endocrine disruptors coming out of sewage treatment plants, are having an impact on the immune function in fish and altering disease resistance,» Winton says.

Phthalates are hormone - altering chemicals, called endocrine disruptors, and are found in many plastics, containerized foods and personal care products.

In animal models, PPAR expression is altered through endocrine disruptors, and thus subsequent alterations in metabolic parameters result.

BPA is an endocrine disruptor, or hormone - altering chemical, that has been linked to numerous adverse health effects in humans.

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).»

Urine comprises only 1 % of domestic sewage, but contains 90 % of wastewater's nitrogen, 50 % of its phosphorus, and the lion's share of dissolved pharmaceuticals like endocrine disruptors that even in minute quantities can alter hormone systems in humans and aquatic life.

Unfortunately, there are serious concerns about their health effects, as phthalates are thought to be endocrine disruptors, chemicals that alter the way animal hormones operate.