New Study Highlights Hazards On Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
...untries. The possible involvement of environmental endocrine disruptingchemicals in hormonerelated cancer is not known, but alterations in hormonal responses or in themetabolism of hormoneshave not been ruled out as a cause of hormone related cancers. The hypothesisthat exposure tohormonally active chemicals w...Endocrine Disruptors And Their Effects On Health, Environment
...s will discuss the latestresearch on environmental endocrine disruptors and their impact on human healthand the environment. This panel of experts will cover population decline ofamphibians, studies of endocrine-related cancers and the effects of fetalexposure to possible endocrine-active compounds, and the U....Advances In Analyzing Environmental Endocrine Disruptors And Their Effects On Health, Environment
...ywill present the latest research on environmental endocrine disruptors and theirimpact on human health and the...ars ago, the CDC beganstudying the implications of endocrine disruption by xenobiotic compounds. Theyfound a significant lack of large studies of fetal exposure...New Research On Environmental Pollutants
... wildlife and fish. Twospecial sessions will cover endocrine disrupting substances. Here is a small day by day ...2-5 p.m.) Two sessions during Dioxin'98 deal with endocrine disruptive pollutants. Amongother things, the thyroid hormone system, which regulates metabolism wil......, trypsin, nucleases, etc., while the endocrine cells produce insulin, glucagon, somatostatin and ...y. Mice without Pax4 and Pax6 have no endocrine cells in the pancreas. In the report in the May issue of Nature Genetics (Mansouri, Cho...Researchers Discover Existing Drugs May Prevent Enlarged Hearts
...tsof damage, like hypertension or heart attacks or endocrine disorders ormutations. What the heart does is try to compensate for that damage byincreasing its size to achieve greater cardiac output," said Olson. Initially this is beneficial, but ultimately the heart mayenlarge too much, causing congesti...Molecular Memory Tunes Adrenaline To Stress
...nderstanding of chemical signaling cascades in the endocrine system could lead to better medical therapies -- perhaps even gene therapy -- for conditions such as hypertension and heart attack, predict McCobb, an assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, and Xie, a postdoctoral researcher in the McCobb'...Vitamin D Deficiency Appears Common In Hospital Patients
...so dramatic," saysJoel Finkelstein, MD, of the MGH endocrine unit, the paper's senior author. "This finding suggests that vitamin D deficiency is more common than currentlyappreciated in the general population as well." Vitamin D helps the body absorb minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, whichare critical...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
...reats -- ozone layerdepletion, global warming and endocrine disrupters, for example -- are lessvisible, more subtle and more difficult to address than the black skies ororange rivers of a generation ago. "Like nature itself, environmental problems constantly evolve. So, too,must our strategies for de......y of autoimmune manifestations affecting mainly endocrine organs, such as parathyroid gland, thyroid gland, adrenal cortex and the gonads. The patients generate autoantibodies against the affected organs which consequently become functionless during the course of the life-long disease. APECE...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
... thatconcentrations of these chemicals -- probable endocrine disrupters that cancause reproductive harm -- are highest during the warmest part of the day andlowest during the coolest. Hornbuckle hopes her research will show how thesechemicals adsorb and volatilize to plant surfaces, "similar to the condensatio...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
... cancer. Their discovery of the gene for multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1 (MEN1), is reported in the April... MEN1 and its protein product, called menin , how endocrine tumors and cancers grow. The discovery also provides a target for the design of drugs to prevent or...Study Examines How Mechanisms Evolve To Regulate Bee Development
...velopment in which they grow upand mate. The same endocrine and genetic mechanisms involved in behavioral developmentof worker bees -- who tend the hive and, when older, forage -- exist inthe drones, researchers found. When the hormone level was elevated, dronesbegan to seek virgin queens earlier than same-ag...Discovery Of Cell Sites May Shed Light On How Bodily Systems Interact
...shot of a direct link betweenthe body's immune and endocrine systems. The work was featured on the coverand ins...ls in mice. "This work shows us a marriage of the endocrine and immune systems,"Kelley said. "These data give us a new set of glasses -- a new wayof looking at ...