Background Considerable interest has been gathered on the relevant impact of preventable
factors, including incorrect lifestyle and unhealthy habits, on female fertility. Smoking …

Beyond vitamin D (VD) effect on bone homeostasis, numerous physiological functions in
human health have been described for this versatile prohormone. In 2016, 95% of the …

The substantial harmful effects of tobacco smoking on fertility and reproduction have
become apparent but are not generally appreciated. Tobacco smoke contains more than …

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer, of which the incidence has
dramatically increased worldwide in the past few decades. The reasons for the observed …

BACKGROUND Air pollution is both a sensory blight and a threat to human health. Inhaled
environmental pollutants can be naturally occurring or human-made, and include traffic …

Cigarette smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer. To identify genes deregulated by
smoking and to distinguish gene expression changes that are reversible and persistent …

BACKGROUND The ovarian reserve (number and quality of oocytes) is correlated with
reproductive potential as well as somatic health, and is likely to have multiple genetic and …

Menopause marks the end of the reproductive phase of life. Based on epidemiological
studies, abnormal age at natural menopause (ANM) is thought to contribute to a number of …

Histones are slowly evolving chromatin components and chromatin remodeling can
incorporate histone variants differing from canonical histones as an epigenetic modification …

Abstract Recently Health Canada and the Food and Drug Administration warned about the
cardiovascular risk of testosterone, making environmental drivers of testosterone potential …