Bibliographic Information

Xenoestrogens, pollution and health: a critical review.     Gozzo, Franco; Poupaert, Jacques H..    Dip. di Sci. moleculari Agrualimentari (DISMA), Facolta di Agraria,  Univ. Cattolica di Milano,  Milan,  Italy.    Journal de Pharmacie de Belgique  (1998),  53(4),  278-286.  CODEN: JPBEAJ  ISSN: 0047-2166.  Journal; General Review  written in English.    CAN 131:282441    AN 1999:551232    CAPLUS  

Abstract

This review article, with 37 notes and refs. crit. selected from the recent literature, provides basic information concerning xenoestrogens (i.e. sexual hormone mimetic or disruptive compds.).  In the second part, a hypothetical link between xenoestrogens and disturbances of the central nervous system is considered with respect to steroids more directly involved in the CNS, i.e. the neurosteroids.  The data accumulated so far on xenoestrogens present in the environment and their possible competition for membrane-bound neurosteroid receptor sites lend support to the working hypothesis that human behavior could be affected in daily life by exposure to chem. pollutants.  

Indexing -- Section 4-0  (Toxicology)  
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