The incidence of breast cancer has risen worldwide to unprecedented levels in recent
decades, making it now the major cancer of women in many parts of the world. 1 Although …

Abstract The estrogens 17-β-estradiol (E2) and 17-α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) are reported as
highly endocrine-disrupting agents, being recently included in an EU watch list regarding …

Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDC) are chemicals responsible for disturbances in the
hormonal balance of organisms. This group of chemicals includes both egzogenic and …

Abstract An overview of Toxicity Identification and Evaluation (TIE) procedures, used for the
effect-based analysis of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in environmental samples …

Human placental JEG-3 cells conserve a high P450 aromatase activity and are therefore
suitable to evaluate how contaminants may interfere with the routes involved in estrogen …

We studied estrogenic disrupting potency in rivers and wastewaters in the Orge catchment
area near Paris, using analytical and biological approaches simultaneously. The MELN test …

In the present work, a review of the analytical methods developed in the last 15 years for the
determination of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in human samples related with …

BACKGROUND: Fetal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals may increase the risk for
adverse health effects at birth or later in life. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to …

This past summer, United States President Bill Clinton signed into law amendments to the
Safe Drinking Water Act and Food Quality Protection Act that include clauses requiring the …

Several methods have been developed to evaluate and quantify the effects of Endocrine
disruptor chemicals (EDC). Nevertheless, most of these methods are time‐consuming or not …