Abstract The Endocrine Society's first Scientific Statement in 2009 provided a wake-up call to
the scientific community about how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) …

Research efforts during the past decades have provided intriguing evidence suggesting that
stressful experiences during pregnancy exert long-term consequences on the future mental …

Parents' stressful experiences can influence an offspring's vulnerability to many pathological
conditions, including psychopathologies, and their effects may even endure for several …

Interest in the field of epigenetics has increased rapidly over the last decade, with the term
becoming more identifiable in biomedical research, scientific fields outside of the molecular …

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with
findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging …

Increasing evidence has highlighted the critical role of early life environment in shaping the
future health outcomes of an individual. Moreover, recent studies have revealed that early …

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common, heterogeneous, and multifactorial
endocrine disorder in premenopausal women. The pathophysiology of this endocrinopathy …

Background Environmental toxicants such as DDT have been shown to induce the
epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease (eg, obesity) through the germline. The …

Sex-specific differentiation, development, and function of the reproductive system are largely
dependent on steroid hormones. For this reason, developmental exposure to estrogenic and …

Environmental exposures such as toxicants, nutrition and stress have been shown to
promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease susceptibility. Endocrine …