Bisphenol A alternatives are manufactured as potentially less harmful substitutes of
bisphenol A (BPA) that offer similar functionality. These alternatives are already in the …

Steroid hormones are extremely important natural hormones in all vertebrates. They control
a wide range of physiological processes, including osmoregulation, sexual maturity …

Simple Summary Estrogens are a group of steroid hormones that recently have gained even
more attention in the eyes of scientists. There is an ongoing discussion in the scientific …

Degradation and fragmentation of mulching films represents an increasing source of
microplastics (MPs, plastic particles 1 μm to 5 mm in size) to agricultural soils. MPs have …

Marine plastic pollution has garnered substantial attention, but the potential endocrine
disrupting effects of plastic leachates in marine organisms remain unclear. In this study, the …

Many studies on the control of reproduction in mollusks have focused on hormones (and
proteins associated with the production and signaling of those hormones) which were …

Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) are (re-) emergent environmental pollutants
increasingly being used because of the restriction of other flame retardants. The chlorinated …

双壳贝类是中国重要的经济水产品种, 因其营底栖和滤食的生活习性, 常被作为海洋生态系统的
指示物种. 持久性有机污染物(persistent organic pollutants, POPs) 具有持久性, 易蓄积 …

Evidence from both laboratory and field studies has shown that currently used synthetic and
naturally occurring chemical substances may potentially disrupt invertebrate endocrine …

The major sex steroids in humans, progesterone (P), testosterone (T), and 17β-estradiol
(E2), were discovered in the 1920-30s (1–3). Not long afterwards, the presence of vertebrate …