The sex bias of cancer

AR Costa, ML de Oliveira, I Cruz, I Gonçalves… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2020 - cell.com
In hormone-dependent organs, sex hormones and dysregulated hormone signaling have
well-documented roles in cancers of the breast and female reproductive organs including …

The influence of oxidative stress on thyroid diseases

J Kochman, K Jakubczyk, P Bargiel, K Janda-Milczarek - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thyroid diseases, including neoplasms, autoimmune diseases and thyroid dysfunctions, are
becoming a serious social problem with rapidly increasing prevalence. The latter is …

Gestational urinary bisphenol A and maternal and newborn thyroid hormone concentrations: the HOME Study

ME Romano, GM Webster, AM Vuong, RT Zoeller… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor used in consumer products, may perturb thyroid
function. Prenatal BPA exposure may have sex-specific effects on thyroid hormones (THs) …

Gender in endocrine diseases: role of sex gonadal hormones

R Lauretta, M Sansone, A Sansone… - International journal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Gender‐and sex‐related differences represent a new frontier towards patient‐tailored
medicine, taking into account that theoretically every medical specialty can be influenced by …

Phthalates and thyroid function in preschool age children: sex specific associations

R Morgenstern, RM Whyatt, BJ Insel, AM Calafat… - Environment …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Research relating either prenatal or concurrent measures of phthalate
exposure to thyroid function in preschool children is inconclusive. Methods In a study of …

Female endurance runners have a healthier diet than males—results from the NURMI Study (Step 2)

M Motevalli, KH Wagner, C Leitzmann, D Tanous… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sex has been recognized to be an important indicator of physiological, psychological, and
nutritional characteristics among endurance athletes. However, there are limited data …

[HTML][HTML] Critical period regulation by thyroid hormones: potential mechanisms and sex-specific aspects

G Batista, TK Hensch - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Adequate perinatal levels of thyroid hormones (THs) are required for normal brain function
and development. Studies in non-mammalian species suggest that TH might be involved in …

Thyroid autoimmunity as a window to autoimmunity: an explanation for sex differences in the prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity

SJ Merrill, Y Mu - Journal of theoretical biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), predominately Graves׳ disease and Hashimoto׳ s
thyroiditis, comprise the most common autoimmune diseases in humans. Both have the …

Bisphenol A increases hydrogen peroxide generation by thyrocytes both in vivo and in vitro

MM Da Silva, LLF Xavier, CFL Gonçalves… - Endocrine …, 2018 - ec.bioscientifica.com
Bisphenol A (BPA) is the most common monomer in polycarbonate plastics and an
endocrine disruptor. Though some effects of BPA on thyroid hormone (TH) synthesis and …

Flavonoids, thyroid iodide uptake and thyroid cancer—a review

CFL Gonçalves, ML De Freitas… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Thyroid cancer is the most common malignant tumor of the endocrine system and the
incidence has been increasing in recent years. In a great part of the differentiated …