Sentences with phrase «mimicking chemicals in the environment»
Davis can't say why the shift is occurring, but she suspects the cause is exposure to estrogen - mimicking chemicals in the environment: so - called metalloestrogens like arsenic and mercury, as well as pesticides, solvents, plastics, including phthalates (see story # 42, page 46), and PCBs.
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Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....
By immersing stem cells harvested from men's bone marrow in a cocktail of chemicals that mimic the environment of the testes, Nayernia and his team turned the stem cells into immature sperm.
His team is also checking blood and urine samples for chemicals that mimic oestrogen, from plastics in the environment, for example, to soya in the diet.
We build up bio-matrices with defined chemical composition to mimic their environment under physiological and pathological conditions, to supply nutrition, to provide signaling, to create polarized conditions, and to, ultimately, allow us to perform cell - based drug screening in 3D model organs.
And while most of the disasters foreseen in the book have not occurred, environmental problems overlooked at the time have become more threatening, such as the acidification of the oceans and the release of hormone - mimicking chemicals into the environment.
More than 700 synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is on the rise.
Xenoestrogens are chemicals lurking in our environment which mimic and bind to estrogen receptors in our body.
Chemicals in our environment, known as xenoestrogens, can mimic naturally occurring estrogen in our bodies and act as endocrine disruptors.