A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week.
Contents: Events, Regulations/Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
Events
Webinar: Agents of Change: Amplifying voices of future leaders in environmental health and justice July 30, 1pm US Eastern.
Regulations/Policy
New series, Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. Includes an editorial, EDCs: time to take action; two articles, Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health and Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: economic, regulatory, and policy implications; and, there is also a profile in this issue, Andrea Gore: neuroendocrinologist and environmental activist.
Methods/Tools/Screening
Endocrine disrupting chemicals and COVID-19 relationships: a computational systems biology approach.
Commentaries
Reviews
Numerous EDCs
BPA/Phthalates
Parabens
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics/Plastics
Air Pollution
Human Health Studies
BPA/Phthalates
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Case Report of Central Precocious Puberty in a Female: Role of Environmental Pollutants? [a 5 year old girl; the issue resolved when the family moved away from the farm and pesticides]
Potentially Toxic Elements
Air Pollution
BPA/Phenols
Mixed plasticizers aggravated apoptosis by NOD2-RIP2-NF-κB pathway in grass carp hepatocytes
Phthalates
Parabens/Triclosan/Personal Care Products
The use of patient-derived breast tissue explants to study macrophage polarization and the effects of environmental chemical exposure. [Benzophenone-3]
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Prenatal EDCs Impair Mate and Odor Preference and Activation of the VMN in Male and Female Rats. [PCBs and vinclozolin]
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics/Nanoplastics
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals
Mixtures
Exposure/Environment Studies
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Biomonitoring of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs) in human milk: Exposure and risk assessment for lactating mothers and breastfed children from Spain Legacy and emerging organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers in indoor microenvironments from Guangzhou, South China [flame retardants and phthalates]
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Pesticides
Potentially Toxic Elements
Microplastics
High prevalence of plastic ingestion by Eriocheir sinensis and Carcinus maenas (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Thames Estuary.
Air Pollution
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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.