Sentences with phrase «including endocrine»

The authors say that there needs to be more research into the possible causes for the decline in semen concentration and percentages of normally formed sperm, and that environmental stresses, including endocrine disrupters, must be considered.

The internal medicine service at the Institute of Veterinary Specialists provides consultation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment pertaining to all aspects of internal medicine including endocrine disorders; liver, kidney, respiratory, and gastrointestinal diseases; infectious and immune - mediated diseases; and critical care cases (including placement of feeding tubes, central lines, transfusion therapy, and total parenteral nutrition).

Many «triggers» are blamed for the sudden rise in disease prevalence, including endocrine disruptors such as polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and metallic peel - off cans, as use of these household compounds increased around the same time.

A slew of environmental factors have been linked to impaired spermatogenesis and reduced sperm count, including endocrine - disrupting toxins, poor dietary habits, and the use of certain drugs.

Exposure to toxins, including endocrine disrupting compounds, promote weight gain by affecting metabolism, the ability to balance blood sugar, hormones, and brain function.

Models that explore the contributions of various systems including endocrine, immune, and neurochemical.

EPA has used standardized test methods since the early 1970s to detect potential adverse effects of chemicals, including endocrine disruptive effects.

Created by Carnegie Mellon green chemist Terry Collins, the molecules, called TAML ® activators, provide an environmentally friendly method for breaking down toxic compounds that contaminate water, including endocrine disruptors.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

Unfortunately, research is showing that chronic exposure to flame retardant chemicals can lead to many health hazards including endocrine disruption, cognitive delays, and decreased fertility.

These flame retardants have been shown to cause serious health disorders including endocrine disruption, cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, reproductive and neurological disorders and learning disabilities such as ADHD, mental retardation, and hyperactivity.

Deleterious effects include endocrine disruption, thyroid suppression, immune system suppresion, suppression of sperm production, DNA breakage and increased incidence of leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer, infertility, growth problems and subtle changes in sexually dimorphic behaviors.

Hormone diseases include endocrine system diseases, which directly affect the glands of the endocrine system.

According to a new report by Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK), these include endocrine disruptors which interfere with hormone systems and organophosphates that can negatively affect children's cognitive development.

Possible theories for this syndrome include endocrine disorders, autoimmune disease, toxicity, infection, neoplasia, etc..

Special interests include endocrine emergencies, hematology, and managing ICU cases.

Interests include endocrine surgery of dogs and cats and novel imaging techniques in small animal surgery.

Not exact matches

The limbic system regulates autonomic and endocrine function, including our fight - or - flight response to emotional stimuli.

Plastic eventually breaks down into micro particles, which then make their way into plankton, and thus the entire seafood chain (including any fish you might eat)-- potentially causing immune system disorders, endocrine disruption, and developmental problems in children;

Adversity, especially in early childhood, has a powerful effect on the development of the intricate stress - response network within each of us that links together the brain, the immune system, and the endocrine system (the glands that produce and release stress hormones, including cortisol).

Regulation of private sector impacting on food systems and access to natural resources, including on marketing for unhealthy foods and breastmilk substitutes, seeds protection for peasants, antibiotic resistance, endocrine disrupting chemicals, is central.

The Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Floating Hospital provides expert care for children with endocrine and metabolic problems, including growth, sexual differentiation / maturation and thyroid gland disorders.

To ensure the safety of the decontaminated water, including the oligomers, the researchers tested it with Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption (TiPED) assays.

The jury is out as to why this is, but probable causes include insufficient (or nonexistent) maternity leave, poverty and its accompanying stress and pour nourishment, lack of education about and exposure to breastfeeding, infant care practices that keep mother and baby separate, scheduled feeding, high rates of birth interventions, the aggressive marketing of infant formula, exposure to pesticides and endocrine disruptors, and cultural beliefs that tell mothers they can't do it.

The conditions have a group of symptoms that can affect multiple systems in the body, including the nervous, digestive, immune, and endocrine systems.

Infarction (not enough blood flow to) pituitary after birth causing multiple endocrine issues, including insufficient or no breast milk production.

Every exposure to radiation poses health risks, including programmed cell death, genetic mutations, cancers, leukemia, birth defects, and reproductive, immune and endocrine system disorders.

In addition, it has been restored for eight additional drug classes, including: anti-depressants, anti-retroviral, anti-rejection, seizure, epilepsy, endocrine, hematologic, and immunologic therapeutic.

BPA has been identified as an endocrine disruptor and has been linked in numerous animal studies to adverse health effects, including in reproductive and metabolic systems, which have prompted public concern.

Other causes of death included infectious diseases (2.2 %), endocrine and nutritional diseases (2.2 %), neurological (2.2 %), digestive system diseases (2.2 %), and genitourinary disease (1.1 %).

«The ATA is currently revising those guidelines to take into account the latest research, including our findings,» said senior author Sally Carty, M.D., Pitt professor of surgery, co-director of the UPMC / UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center and recent president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

In all, the proposed budget would do away with 50 EPA programs that cost $ 347 million, including Energy Star, targeted air pollution grants, endocrine disrupter screening and infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages and the Mexico border.

Other causes of heart failure include systemic processes such as inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, endocrine derangements, and kidney disease, which result in an unknown number of cases.

«There is good reason to suspect that increasing chemical production and use is related to the growing incidence of endocrine - associated disorders over the past 20 years, including male reproductive problems, early female puberty, cancers and neurobehavioral disorders,» said Endocrine Society member Andrea C. Gore, PhD, the guide's leaendocrine - associated disorders over the past 20 years, including male reproductive problems, early female puberty, cancers and neurobehavioral disorders,» said Endocrine Society member Andrea C. Gore, PhD, the guide's leaEndocrine Society member Andrea C. Gore, PhD, the guide's lead author.

«The higher incidence of prolonged problems among women has been associated with a number of gender differences including physiological differences in the laryngeal system, differences in the endocrine system, and differences in pulmonary usage,» said Eric Hunter, the lead investigator and Associate Chair of Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the Michigan State University.

Endocrine disrupters — pollutants that unbalance hormone systems — are known to harm fish, and there is growing evidence linking them to health problems in humans, including infertility and various cancers.

Many of these identified endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which include pesticides and substances used in manufacturing a multitude of products, have been reported to interfere with thyroid hormone function, yet public health policy does not fully address the risks to vulnerable populations.

Long - term sleep loss may affect the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and nervous systems with severe consequences including hypertension, obesity and mental health disorders, among others.

The researchers, including scientists from The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine, presented the research titled, «Patient - derived xenograft study reveals endocrine therapy resistance of ER + breast cancer caused by distinct ESR1 gene aberrations.»

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

In the CPG, the Endocrine Society recommends that initial testing for pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas include blood or urine tests for metanephrines — the products left behind when the body metabolizes epinephrine and norepinephrine.

Faced with dismal prognosis and no available targeted treatments, doctors led by Maggie Wierman, MD, and Stephen Leong, MD, established an adrenal tumor multidisciplinary team including endocrinologists, oncologists, endocrine surgeons, pathologists and radiation oncologists.

The test is part of a five - tiered testing system called the Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption (TiPED) that was developed by 24 chemists, biologists and environmental health scientists, including Collins, for chemists and manufacturers to use to determine whether their chemical has endocrine disrupting Endocrine Disruption (TiPED) that was developed by 24 chemists, biologists and environmental health scientists, including Collins, for chemists and manufacturers to use to determine whether their chemical has endocrine disrupting endocrine disrupting activity.

Topics will include the role of the autocrine, paracrine and endocrine mediators in reflexes and areas of the central nervous system that are known to regulate sympathetic function.

Our faculty study a wide range of topics, including health outcomes and quality of life for children with diabetes, and the link between childhood obesity and its long - term endocrine consequences such as pubertal maturation.

Comprehensive Study Includes All Danish Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer from 2000 to 2003 who were Indicated for Prosigna and Treated with Endocrine Therapy

To date Endocrine Disrupting, Respiratory and Strong Skin Sensitizing chemicals have been identified as possible ELoC requiring further review although eMSCAs and ECHA have indicated that other human health endpoints may be included.

Her research areas included breast cancer, endocrine disruption and tissue engineering.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

Throughout its history, the Society has counted many highly esteemed physicians and researchers among its membership, including ten Nobel Laureates, four of whom were past presidents of the Endocrine Society.