New EDC articles, Oct. 2 – 8, 2019

A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week.

Note I changed the categories a little bit this week:

Contents: Call for Papers, Regulations/Policy, Tools/Methods/Screening, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Human Exposure Studies, Wildlife/Environment Studies.

Call for Papers

The Journal Endocrinology has issued a call for papers on EDCs and transgenerational/epigenetic factors as well as other topics.

Regulations/Policy

When the CDC Viewed Pesticide Toxicity to Humans Through a Narrow Window and related article, Conceptual Frameworks in Scientific Inquiry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Approach to Pesticide Toxicity (1948-1968).

Tools/Methods/Screening

Method development for effect-directed analysis of endocrine disrupting compounds in human amniotic fluid.

Exploring open cheminformatics approaches for categorizing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs).

Measured Concentrations of Consumer Product Chemicals in California House Dust: Implications for Sources, Exposure, and Toxicity Potential.

5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in cord blood and associations of DNA methylation with sex in newborns. [epigenetic study from CHAMACOS cohort]

Honey Bees and Environmental Stress: Toxicologic Pathology of a Superorganism.

Environmental DNA: An Emerging Tool in Ecological Assessment.

Reviews

Miscellaneous

The challenging use and interpretation of blood biomarkers of exposure related to lipophilic endocrine disrupting chemicals in environmental health studies.

Epigenetic Modifications Induced by Nutrients in Early Life Phases: Gender Differences in Metabolic Alteration in Adulthood. [includes discussion of a number of EDCs / obesogens]

Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries. [not EDCs specifically but safe water]

Review of the safety of octocrylene used as an ultraviolet filter in cosmetics.

Phthalates

Association between Phthalate Metabolites and Risk of Endometriosis: A Meta-Analysis.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Are persistent organic pollutants important in the etiology of feline hyperthyroidism? A review.

Pesticides

Occupational Health and Safety in the Palm Oil Industry: A Systematic Review.

Arsenic/Metals

Arsenic in edible macroalgae: an integrated approach.

Human Health Studies

BPA/Phenols

Associations of Trimester-Specific Exposure to Bisphenols with Size at Birth: A Chinese Prenatal Cohort Study.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

In utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, micro-RNA profiles, and fetal growth: a pilot study protocol. [various POPs, including PFAS]

Polymorphism of xenobiotic metabolizing gene and susceptibility of epithelial ovarian cancer with reference to organochlorine pesticides exposure.

Association of dioxin in maternal breast milk and salivary steroid hormone levels in preschool children: A five-year follow-up study of a Vietnam cohort.

Effects of perinatal dioxin exposure on learning abilities of 8-year-old children in Vietnam.

Pesticides

Transgenic cotton and farmers’ health in Pakistan.

[High frequency hearing among rural workers exposed to pesticides] [in Portuguese. Note that “There were no cases of proper use of personal protective equipment recommended for the activity.”]

Arsenic/Metals

Fish intake and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in a Chinese population: The Singapore Chinese Health Study.

Low level arsenic exposure, B-vitamins, and achievement among Uruguayan school children.

Air Pollution

Air pollution exposures from multiple point sources and risk of incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.

Effects of personal air pollutant exposure on oxidative stress: Potential confounding by natural variation in melatonin levels.

Residential proximity to roadways and placental-associated stillbirth: a case-control study.

Mixtures

The Cumulative Risk of Chemical and Nonchemical Exposures on Birth Outcomes in Healthy Women: The Fetal Growth Study.

Miscellaneous

The association between environmental quality and diabetes in the U.S.

Biochemical changes among municipal solid waste sorting workers: implications for personal protective equipment availability and use.

Perineal Talc Use, Douching, and the Risk of Uterine Cancer.

Laboratory Studies

BPA/Phenols

Bisphenol A triggers axonal injury and myelin degeneration with concomitant neurobehavioral toxicity in C57BL/6J male mice.

Bisphenol A aggravates renal ischemia-reperfusion injury by disrupting mitochondrial homeostasis and N-acetylcysteine mitigates the injurious outcomes.

Distribution of vitellogenin in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) for biomarker analysis of marine environmental estrogens.

Cuscuta chinensis flavonoids alleviate bisphenol A-induced apoptosis of testicular cells in male mice offspring.

Phthalates

DEHP and DINP Induce Tissue- and Gender-Specific Disturbances in Fatty Acid and Lipidomic Profiles in Neonatal Mice: A Comparative Study.

Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials

Lipid metabolism disorders contribute to hepatotoxicity of triclosan in mice.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Common differentially expressed proteins were found in mouse cleft palate models induced by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and retinoic acid.

Proteomic changes of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR)-silenced porcine granulosa cells exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD).

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Perﬂuorooctane sulfonate induces apoptosis via activation of FoxO3a and upregulation of proapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins in PC12 cells.

Pesticides

Deleterious Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticides on Drosophila melanogaster Immune Pathways.

Relationship between the Dose Administered, Target Tissue Dose and Toxicity Level after Acute Oral Exposure to Bifenthrin and Tefluthrin in Young Adult Rats.

Mouse (Mus Musculus) Embryonic Cerebral Cortex Cell Death Caused by Carbofuran Insecticide Exposure.

Atrazine induces necroptosis by miR-181-5p targeting inflammation and glycometabolism in carp lymphocytes.

Resveratrol attenuates malathion-induced liver damage by reducing oxidative stress.

Ecotoxicological hazard of a mixture of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid to the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck 1819).

Toxic effects of pyrethroids in tadpoles of Physalaemus gracilis (Anura: Leptodactylidae).

Rotenone and 3-bromopyruvate toxicity impacts electrical and structural cardiac remodeling in rats.

Low-dose endosulfan inhibits proliferation and induces senescence and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in human lymphocytes, preferentially impacting cytotoxic cells.

Arsenic/Metals

Cardioprotective role of metformin against sodium arsenite-induced oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis.

Ferulic acid attenuates arsenic induced cardiotoxicity in rats.

Microplastics

Aged microplastics polyvinyl chloride interact with copper and cause oxidative stress towards microalgae Chlorella vulgaris.

Air Pollution

Estrogen Receptor-Related DNA and Histone Methylation May Be Involved in the Transgenerational Disruption in Spermatogenesis by Selective Toxic Chemicals. [specifically addresses chemicals in air pollution as endocrine disruptors]

Mixtures

Role of biomarkers in the evaluation of cadmium and ethoprophos combination in male mice.

Toxicity of pharmaceuticals in binary mixtures: Assessment by additive and non-additive toxicity models.

Environmental stress increases synergistic effects of pesticide mixtures on Daphnia magna.

Acute and chronic toxicity of herbicides and their mixtures measured by Aliivibrio fischeri ecotoxicological assay.

Miscellaneous

Differential responses in the biotransformation systems of the oyster Crassostrea gasar (Adanson, 1757) elicited by pyrene and fluorene: molecular, biochemical and histological approach – Part I.

Human Exposure Studies

Phthalates

Pollutants delivered every day: Phthalates in plastic express packaging bags and their leaching potential. [“The involving of recycled plastics during the manufacture of plastic express packaging bags may… increase the releasing risk of phthalates”]

Hexamoll® DINCH and DPHP metabolites in urine of children and adolescents in Germany. Human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey GerES V, 2014-2017. [phthalate alternatives]

Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials

Rapid, sensitive and simultaneous determination of 16 endocrine-disrupting chemicals (parabens, benzophenones, bisphenols, and triclocarban) in human urine based on microextraction by packed sorbent combined with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (MEPS-LC-MS/MS). [levels of bisphenols, triclocarban, parabens, etc. in Brazilian children]

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Dietary exposure to furan of the Austrian population.

Arsenic/Metals

Health risk assessment of airborne Cd, Cu, Ni and Pb for electronic waste dismantling workers in Buriram Province, Thailand.

Dietary exposure to elements from the German pilot total diet study (TDS).

Air Pollution

Face masks could raise pollution risks [because people might think they actually work]

Miscellaneous

The association of urinary organophosphate ester metabolites and self-reported personal care and household product use among pregnant women in Puerto Rico.

Wildlife/Environment Studies

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Uptake of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances at the Air-Water Interface.

Pesticides

Using long-term datasets to assess the impacts of dietary exposure to neonicotinoids on farmland bird populations in England.

The Effectiveness of Riparian Hedgerows at Intercepting Drift from Aerial Pesticide Application.

Long-term Data from the Swedish National Environmental Monitoring Program of Pesticides in Surface Waters.

A Systems Approach to Modeling Watershed Ecohydrology and Pesticide Transport.

Arsenic/Metals

Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and meteorology on mercury deposition over lake vs land surface in upstate New York.

Mercury methylation-related microbes and genes in the sediments of the Pearl River Estuary and the South China Sea.

Assessment of heavy metals and arsenic pollution in surface sediments from rivers around a uranium mining area in East China.

Distribution, Ecological Risk Assessment, and Bioavailability of Cadmium in Soil from Nansha, Pearl River Delta, China.

Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health.

An assessment of temporal trends in mercury concentrations in fish.

Heavy metal assimilation in maize (Zea mays L.) plants growing near mine tailings.

Occurrence, migration, and allocation of arsenic in multiple media of a typical semi-enclosed bay.

Microplastics

Microplastics in gentoo penguins from the Antarctic region.

Contrary to Marine Environments, Common Microplastics in Freshwater Systems May Not Emit Dimethyl Sulfide: An Important Infochemical.

Pharmaceuticals

Occurrence, Concentrations, and Risks of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Private Wells in Central Pennsylvania.

Mixtures

The responses of bacterial community and N2O emission to nitrogen input in lake sediment: Estrogen as a co-pollutant.

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This list is not meant to be exhaustive, and generally does not include studies on detection, remediation, or treatment of EDCs. Note that journal publication dates may be different than dates added to PubMed. To see the searchable archives, please email me at Sarah@healthandenvironment.org and ask to join the group EDC_research@googlegroups.com. Archives are at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/edc_research. Feel free to forward. Compiled by Sarah Howard, Diabetes and Environment Program and HEEDS at Commonweal.