Meanings of endocrine disruptor in English

DEHP is an endocrine disruptor and can pose toxic threats to the reproductive system.

Ibuprofen has been recognized as an environmental endocrine disruptor due to its ability to interfere with prostaglandin synthesis.

As BPA is qualified as an endocrine disruptor, growing concern is rising for possible harmful effects on human health.

Tufts University endocrine disruptor researcher Maricel Maffini, who was not involved in the study, reported similar observations from her own lab.

Background: In vitro and animal data suggest that cadmium, a heavy metal that contaminates some foods and tobacco plants, is an estrogenic endocrine disruptor.

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with the hormone system.

Endocrine disruptors -chemicals that mimic human sex hormones -are almost certainly to blame.

Endocrine disruptors are linked to breast and prostate cancers, infertility and metabolic disorders, among other health concerns.

Endocrine disruptors that can affect not only our health but may damage us in ways that go on for generations.

But some researchers say that endocrine disruptors are a cause of national rises in breast cancer and drops in sperm counts.

Our study suggests that first trimester exposure to pesticides that are suspected endocrine disruptors are associated with CP risk in female offspring.

Of particular concern to Terry are endocrine disruptors, which affect human hormones and can have feminising or masculinising effects on humans and wildlife.

These potentiating phenomena of mycotoxin mixtures highlight the urgent need to incorporate combinatory effects into future risk assessment, especially when endocrine disruptors are involved.

The Ministry for the Environment says endocrine disruptors in waterways, such as oestrogen, are among a range of emerging environmental issues it is monitoring.

Endocrine disruptors have been shown to tweak sperm in other species -and if this turns out to be damaging, starling populations will suffer.

The ministry said assessing exposure to endocrine disruptors, and hence the health and environmental significance of these chemicals, was a challenging, specialist, and emerging field.