Sentences with phrase «studying organochlorine»

Focusing on that will cause you to lose your funding and be forced to relocate, as will studying organochlorine distributions in marine mammals.

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Study after study shows that organochlorine compounds, specifically, adversely affect the body's ability to oxidize fat — they resist being metabolized and are readily stored in fatty tiStudy after study shows that organochlorine compounds, specifically, adversely affect the body's ability to oxidize fat — they resist being metabolized and are readily stored in fatty tistudy shows that organochlorine compounds, specifically, adversely affect the body's ability to oxidize fat — they resist being metabolized and are readily stored in fatty tissue.

However, some recent studies support the hypothesis that an additional effect of postnatal exposure through breastfeeding is likely.20 We have observed in the infants of this population that those who breastfed increased their concentrations of organochlorine chemicals during the first weeks of life (N. Ribas - Fitó, submitted for publication).

Most of the available studies suggest that the prenatal nervous system is more vulnerable to the harmful effects of organochlorine chemicals than the early postnatal nervous system.

The study of 50 pregnant women found detectable levels of organochlorines in all of the women participating in the study — including DDT, PCBs and other pesticides that have been banned from use for more than 30 years.

Human health scientists have for years suspected organochlorines may impact male fertility but studies have had mixed results.

And a 2004 study of Greenland men suggested that regional differences in sperm quality may be related to organochlorine exposure.

A study carried out in Hartford Connecticut, the first of it's kind in North America, found that, «women with breast cancer have 50 % to 60 % higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer.»