A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week.
Contents: Methods/Screening, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Human Exposure Studies, Wildlife/Environment Studies.
Methods/Screening
Reviews
Phthalates
Pesticides
Arsenic/Metals
Air Pollution
Human Health Studies
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates/Parabens
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Pesticides
Arsenic/Metals
Air Pollution
Miscellaneous
Laboratory Studies
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates
Effect of subacute and prenatal DINCH plasticizer exposure on rat dams and male offspring hepatic function: The role of PPAR-α. [phthalate replacement]
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Flame Retardants
[Effect of prenatal BDE-99 exposure on the maternal thyroid hormones levels and development of rat offspring]. [In Chinese]
Organotins
Pesticides
Arsenic/Metals
Microplastics
Effects of microplastic particles and leaching additive on the life history and morphology of Daphnia magna. [includes leaching of phthalates]
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals
Analysis of tail coiling activity of zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos allows for the differentiation of neurotoxicants with different modes of action. [pharmaceuticals, cadmium, pesticides]
Mixtures
Roles of mtDNA damage and disordered Ca2+ homeostasis in the joint toxicities of cadmium and BDE209.
Miscellaneous
Human Exposure Studies
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Flame Retardants
Arsenic/Metals
Air Pollution
Wildlife/Environment Studies
BPA/Phenols
Parabens/Triclosan/ Antimicrobials
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Make polluters pay for fluorochemical clean-up. [Letter in Nature] Comment on News item: Tainted water: the scientists tracing thousands of fluorinated chemicals in our environment
[The invisible venom: the story of the contamination from PFAS (perfluoroalchilic substances) in the Veneto Region]. [in Italian]
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Arsenic/Metals
Microplastics
Pathway, classification and removal efficiency of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants. [review]
and many more like this in Marine Pollution Bulletin
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals
Mixtures
Cleaning up plastic pollution in Africa. Perspective in Science
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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.