Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are synthetic or natural chemical molecules occurring in
environment that have the potential to impart adverse effects on homeostasis of endocrine …

Background Ancestral environmental exposures to a variety of environmental factors and
toxicants have been shown to promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of adult …

Public concern has recently escalated over pesticide contamination of South African aquatic
ecosystems. This review of published literature on the occurrence of pesticides within South …

Background The debate regarding dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in malaria
prevention and human health is polarized and can be classified into three positions: anti …

To determine the impact of agricultural pesticides used in cotton cultivation on the health
status of fish living in a Beninese cotton basin, we compared the reproductive and hepatic …

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) has potential to contaminate the aquatic environment. This
paper investigated the reproductive performance and gonad histopathology of female Nile …

Although some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may not be currently in production,
many of these chemicals still exist ubiquitously in the environment and continue to represent …

Exposure of wildlife to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is not necessarily continuous.
Due to seasonal changes and variable industrial and agricultural activities it often occurs …

Modern agricultural practices result in indiscriminate use of various agrochemicals, which
usually enter into the aquatic environment. The use of agrochemicals in the field has the …

Pesticide-induced endocrine disruption often mimics sex steroidal action resulting in
physiological functional disarray of hypothalamo–hypophyseal–gonadal (HHG) system at …