New EDC articles, Oct. 23 – 29, 2019

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

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

The Distinguished Legacy of Linda S. Birnbaum, an Environmental Health Champion. [Thank you Dr. Birnbaum!]

Regulations/Policy

The Potential Effects of Policy-Driven Air Pollution Interventions on Childhood Lung Development.

Evaluating potential refinements to existing Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) values for environmentally-relevant compounds.

Use of benchmark dose models in risk assessment for occupational handlers of eight pesticides used in pome fruit production.

Predicting low-concentration effects of pesticides.

Methods/Screening

Latent classes for chemical mixtures analyses in epidemiology: an example using phthalate and phenol exposure biomarkers in pregnant women.

Key characteristics of 86 agents known to cause cancer in humans.

Proceedings of the 2019 National Toxicology Program Satellite Symposium including Pathology in Ecological Research With Implications for One Health: Session Summary.

Reviews

Miscellaneous

Editorial: Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Cardiometabolic Disease: A Developmental Origins Approach part of a Frontiers in Public Health Research Topic of the same name.

Plastic pollution in the environment part of a Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology Special Issue of the same name.

Diet: A Source of Endocrine Disruptors.

Urban-associated diseases: Candidate diseases, environmental risk factors, and a path forward.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway: Role, regulation and intervention in atherosclerosis therapy (Review).

Pesticides

Effects of the Herbicide Glyphosate on Honey Bee Sensory and Cognitive Abilities: Individual Impairments with Implications for the Hive.

Arsenic/Metals

Selenium and thyroid cancer: a systematic review.

The toxicological effects of lead and its analytical trends: an update from 2000 to 2018.

Microplastics

Microplastics – from Anthropogenic to Natural.

Airborne microplastics: a review study on method for analysis, occurrence, movement and risks.

Mixtures

Joint Impact of Synthetic Chemical and Non-chemical Stressors on Children’s Health.

Human Health Studies

BPA/Phenols

Urinary bisphenol A concentration is correlated with poorer oocyte retrieval and embryo implantation outcomes in patients with tubal factor infertility undergoing in vitro fertilisation.

Phthalates

Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Neurodevelopment in the CHAMACOS Cohort.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Greenlandic women´s lifestyle and diet during pregnancy and child risk for asthma, eczema and allergy: an ACCEPT-substudy.

Metabolite of the pesticide DDT and incident type 2 diabetes in urban India.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and associations with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and cognitive functions in preschool children.

Flame Retardants

Associations between in utero exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, pathophysiological state of fetal growth and placental DNA methylation changes.

Pesticides

Serum Cholinesterase biomarker study in farmers – Souss Massa Region-, Morocco: case-control study.

The Importance of Otoneurological Evaluation in Brazilian Workers Exposed to Pesticides: A Preliminary Study.

Arsenic/Metals

Effect of the Interaction Between Cadmium Exposure and CLOCK Gene Polymorphisms on Thyroid Cancer: a Case-Control Study in China.

Relationship between cancer mortality and environmental cadmium exposure in the general Japanese population in cadmium non-polluted areas.

Cadmium exposure is associated with reduced grip strength in US adults.

Prenatal exposure of rare earth elements cerium and ytterbium and neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone levels: Findings from a birth cohort study.

Air Pollution

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Examining the Shape of the Association between Low Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality across Three Cycles of the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort.

The mediated role of complement C3 in PM2.5 exposure and type 2 diabetes mellitus: an elderly panel study in Beijing, China.

Ambient air pollution as a mediator in the pathway linking race/ethnicity to blood pressure elevation: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA).

Air Pollution and Preterm Birth Risk in Second Pregnancy.

Associations of long-term exposure to PM1, PM2.5, NO2 with type 2 diabetes mellitus prevalence and fasting blood glucose levels in Chinese rural populations.

Acute differences in pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, and central pulse pressure following controlled exposures to cookstove air pollution in the Subclinical Tests of Volunteers Exposed to Smoke (SToVES) study.

Associations between incident breast cancer and ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide from a national land use regression model in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study.

Effect of motor vehicle pollution on lung function, fractional exhaled nitric oxide and cognitive function among school adolescents.

Mixtures

Combined association of BTEX and material hardship on ADHD-suggestive behaviours among a nationally representative sample of US children.

Miscellaneous

Environmental exposure to perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate in relation to obesity: A population-based study.

Industrial contaminated sites and health: results of a European survey and Methods and data needs to assess health impacts of chemicals in industrial contaminated sites.

Laboratory Studies

BPA/Phenols

Bisphenol A modified DNA: A possible immunogenic stimulus for anti-DNA autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus.

N-Acetylcysteine Attenuates the Increasing Severity of Distant Organ Liver Dysfunction after Acute Kidney Injury in Rats Exposed to Bisphenol A.

Environmentally Relevant Perinatal Exposures to Bisphenol A Disrupt Postnatal Kiss1/NKB Neuronal Maturation and Puberty Onset in Female Mice.

Perinatal Bisphenol A Exposure and Reprogramming of Imprinted Gene Expression in the Adult Mouse Brain.

Toxicity of nonylphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylate on Caenorhabditis elegans.

4-nitrophenol exposure in T24 human bladder cancer cells promotes proliferation, motilities and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.

Tetrabromobisphenol A Promotes the Osteoclastogenesis of RAW264.7 Cells Induced by Receptor Activator of NF-kappa B Ligand In Vitro.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Impacts of sex and exposure duration on gene expression in zebrafish following perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) exposure.

Pesticides

Deltamethrin Impairs Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Dancing Communication.

Developmental Toxicity Assessment of Piperonyl Butoxide Exposure Targeting Sonic Hedgehog Signaling and Forebrain and Face Morphogenesis in the Mouse: An in Vitro and in Vivo Study.

Protective effects of syringic acid on neurobehavioral deficits and hippocampal tissue damages induced by sub-chronic deltamethrin exposure.

Toxicity of herbicides to cyanobacteria and phytoplankton species of the San Francisco Estuary and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California, USA.

Bioaccumulation and metabolism of carbosulfan in zebrafish Danio rerio and toxic effects with its metabolites.

Sublethal larval exposure to imidacloprid impacts adult behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster.

Quercetin-induced amelioration of deltamethrin stress in freshwater teleost, Channa punctata: Multiple biomarker analysis.

Assessment of hematological, hepato-renal, antioxidant, and hormonal responses of Clarias gariepinus exposed to sub-lethal concentrations of oxyfluorfen.

Diazinon negatively affects the integrity of environmental DNA stability: a case study with common carp (Cyprinus carpio).

Arsenic/Metals

Toxicity assessment due to prenatal and lactational exposure to lead, cadmium and mercury mixtures.

Cadmium and nickel co-exposure exacerbates genotoxicity and not oxido-inflammatory stress in liver and kidney of rats: Protective role of omega-3 fatty acid.

Lead-mediated inhibition of lysine acetylation and succinylation causes reproductive injury of the mouse testis during development.

Arsenite and cadmium promote the development of mammary tumors.

Subcellular partitioning of cadmium and lead in Eisenia fetida and their effects to sperm count, morphology and apoptosis.

Cadmium exposure during prenatal development causes testosterone disruption in multigeneration via SF-1 signaling in rats.

Protective role of curcumin in cadmium-induced testicular injury in mice by attenuating oxidative stress via Nrf2/ARE pathway.

Microplastics

The Effects of Microplastics on Dolioletta gegenbauri (Tunicata, Thaliacea).

Air Pollution

Exercise does not ameliorate cardiac dysfunction in obese mice exposed to fine particulate matter.

Mixtures

Glyphosate does not show higher phytotoxicity than cadmium: Cross talk and metabolic changes in common herb.

Evaluating combined toxicity of binary heavy metals to the cyanobacterium Microcystis: A theoretical non-linear combined toxicity assessment method.

Human Exposure Studies

Phthalates

Early life exposure to phthalates in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study: a multi-city birth cohort.

Identification of 15 Phthalate Esters in Commercial Cheese Powder via Cyclodextrin-Promoted Fluorescence Detection.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Mother-child transfer rates of organohalogen compounds up to four years of age.

Flame Retardants

Novel and legacy flame retardants in paired human fingernails and indoor dust samples.

Organophosphate esters in indoor dust from 12 countries: Concentrations, composition profiles, and human exposure.

Evaluation of the Burdening on the Czech Population by Brominated Flame Retardants. [plus other POPs]

Pesticides

Pesticide use, production risk and shocks. The case of rice producers in Vietnam.

Arsenic/Metals

Estimating risk of neurotoxicity from early life exposure: Human milk is an appropriate matrix, but messages should not discourage breastfeeding, commentary on Exposure to heavy metals released to the environment through breastfeeding: A probabilistic risk estimation, sent out previously.

Estimated burden of disease from arsenic in drinking water supplied by domestic wells in the United States.

Arsenic health risk assessment related to rice consumption behaviors in adults living in Northern Thailand.

Cadmium Contamination in Breast Milk of Moroccan Lactating Women and the Associated Factors: CONTAMILK Study.

Human Biomonitoring of Trace Elements in Scalp Hair from Healthy Population of Pakistan.

Mercury, lead, and cadmium exposure via red blood cell transfusions in preterm infants.

Systematic Review of the Literature of Factors Affecting the Exposure and the Levels of Lead in Human Breast Milk.

Miscellaneous

Chemical/straightening and other hair product usage during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood among African-American women: potential implications for health.

Population awareness and attitudes toward waste-related health risks in Accra, Ghana.

Wildlife/Environment Studies

BPA/Phenols

Levels of NP and BPA in the Pearl River Estuary, China: Fluctuations with Country Policy Changes over the Past 40 Years. [“Fluctuations in the pollution composition coincided with industrial development and governmental policies.”]

Biomonitoring of exposure to bisphenols, benzophenones, triclosan, and triclocarban in pet dogs and cats.

Phthalates

Analysis of Pollution of Phthalates in Pork and Chicken in Taiwan Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Assessment of Health Risk.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Determination of the Polychlorinated Biphenyls Distribution in Different Fat Tissues of Cattle by Age and Gender.

PCB mass budget in a perialpine lake undergoing natural decontamination in a context of global change.

Biological traits and the transfer of persistent organic pollutants through river food webs.

Rapid increase in contaminant burdens following loss of body condition in canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) overwintering on the Lake St. Clair region of the Great Lakes. [organochlorines and metals]

Application of national pollutant inventories for monitoring trends on dioxin emissions from stationary industrial sources in Australia, Canada and European Union.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

The determination of two emerging perfluoroalkyl substances and related halogenated sulfonic acids and their significance for the drinking water supply chain.

Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in Soil of the Pearl River Delta, China: Spatial Distribution, Sources, and Ecological Risk Assessment.

Flame Retardants

Distribution of flame retardants in smartphones and identification of current-use organic chemicals including three novel aryl organophosphate esters.

Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Soils of Zhejiang Province, China: Levels, Distribution, Sources, and Exposure Risks.

Occurrence, biomagnification and maternal transfer of legacy and emerging organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers in water snake from an e-waste site.

Pesticides

Ecological risk assessment of agricultural pesticides in the highly productive Ndop flood plain in Cameroon using the PRIMET model.

Aquatic pesticide exposure in the U.S. as a result of non-agricultural uses. [review]

Deriving water quality criteria for China for the organophosphorus pesticides dichlorvos and malathion.

Biocide emissions from building materials during wet weather: identification of substances, mechanism of release and transfer to the aquatic environment. [review]

Arsenic/Metals

Resolving a paradox-high mercury deposition, but low bioaccumulation in northeastern Puerto Rico.

Survey of lead concentration in tap water on a university campus. [National Taiwan University]

An integrated analysis on source-exposure risk of heavy metals in agricultural soils near intense electronic waste recycling activities.

Heavy metal content of herbal health supplement products in Dubai – UAE: a cross-sectional study.

Significant Impacts of Both Total Amount and Availability of Heavy Metals on the Functions and Assembly of Soil Microbial Communities in Different Land Use Patterns.

Bioaccessibility of metal(loid)s in soils to humans and their bioavailability to snails: A way to associate human health and ecotoxicological risk assessment?

Public Health Risks Associated with Heavy Metal and Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water in Australia.

Climate influence on mercury in Arctic seabirds.

Mercury speciation in preserved historical sludge: Potential risk from sludge contained within reclaimed land of Minamata Bay, Japan.

Heavy metal content in the green fodder of field pea/oat mixtures destined for cattle feed.

Nutritional quality and health risks of wheat grains from organic and conventional cropping systems. [and heavy metals]

Sources and Assessment of Mercury and Other Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils Surrounding the Wuda Underground Coal Fire Area, Inner Mongolia, China.

The concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in muscle tissue of farmed Iranian rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), feed, and water samples collected from the west of Iran: a risk assessment study.

Determination of trace elements, heavy metals, and antimony in polyethylene terephthalate-bottled local raw cow milk of Iğdır region in Turkey.

Arsenic concentration, speciation, and risk assessment in sediments of the Xijiang River basin, China.

Microplastics

The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus as a bioeroder of plastic.

Biodegradation of waste PET: A sustainable solution for dealing with plastic pollution. [a plastic-degrading bacterium]

Neustonic microplastic pollution in the Persian Gulf.

Air Pollution

Comparative study of PM10-bound heavy metals and PAHs during six years in a Chinese megacity: Compositions, sources, and source-specific risks.

Mixtures

Response in performance indicators of Slimy sculpin in the Steepbank River, Alberta, adjacent to oil sands mining activity.

Assessment of Gene Expression Biomarkers in the Chilean Pencil Catfish, Trichomycterus areolatus, from the Choapa River Basin, Coquimbo Chile.

Miscellaneous

Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring.

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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. Compiled by Sarah Howard, Diabetes and Environment Program and HEEDS at Commonweal.