A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed over the past two weeks (and thus twice as long as usual!).
Contents: Events, Regulations/Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries/News Items, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
Events
Online conference June 15-17: 1st International Endocrine Disruptor Conference on the Island of Ireland
Regulations/Policy
Methods/Tools/Screening
Commentaries/News Items
Reviews
Numerous EDCs
BPA/Phenols
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics/Nanoplastics
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products
Miscellaneous
Human Health Studies
Numerous Chemicals
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and DNA methylation in newborn dried blood spots in the Upstate KIDS cohort.
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Air Pollution
Laboratory Studies
Multigenerational reproduction and developmental toxicity, and HPG axis gene expression study on environmentally-relevant concentrations of nonylphenol in zebrafish.
Exploring the multilevel effects of triclosan from development, reproduction to behavior using Drosophila melanogaster
Phthalates
Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials
Triclosan induces apoptosis in Burkitt lymphoma-derived BJAB cells through caspase and JNK/MAPK pathways.
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) disrupts testosterone biosynthesis via CREB/CRTC2/StAR signaling pathway in Leydig cells
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Toxic effects and mechanisms of PFOA and its substitute GenX on the photosynthesis of Chlorella pyrenoidosa.
Flame Retardants
Organotins
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products
Mixtures
Exposure to estrogenic mixtures results in tissue-specific alterations to the metabolome of oysters.
Miscellaneous
Exposure/Environment Studies
BPA/Phenols
Serum perfluoroalkyl substances in residents following long-term drinking water contamination from firefighting foam in Ronneby, Sweden
Plasticizer contamination in the urine and hair of preschool children, airborne particles in kindergartens, and drinking water in Hong Kong. [phthalates and bisphenols]
Phthalates
Levels and determinants of urinary phthalate metabolites in Chinese community-dwelling older adults.
Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Associations of residential and occupational history with the distribution of persistent pollutants mixtures in adipose tissue samples. [POPs and metals]
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Characterizing the Air Emissions, Transport, and Deposition of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from a Fluoropolymer Manufacturing Facility.
Use of mercury isotopes to quantify sources of human inorganic mercury exposure and metabolic processes in the human body
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products
Mixtures
Miscellaneous
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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 Sa…@healthandenvironment.org and ask to join the group EDC_re…@googlegroups.com. Archives are at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/edc_research. Compiled by Sarah Howard, Diabetes and Environment Program and HEEDS at Commonweal.