[HTML][HTML] Critical review on the presence of phthalates in food and evidence of their biological impact

A Giuliani, M Zuccarini, A Cichelli, H Khan… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Phthalates are a huge class of chemicals with a wide spectrum of industrial uses, from the
manufacture of plastics to food contact applications, children's toys, and medical devices …

Phthalates impact human health: epidemiological evidences and plausible mechanism of action

S Benjamin, E Masai, N Kamimura, K Takahashi… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
Disregarding the rising alarm on the hazardous nature of various phthalates and their
metabolites, ruthless usage of phthalates as plasticizer in plastics and as additives in …

Abundance, characteristics and variation of microplastics in different freshwater fish species from Bangladesh

F Parvin, S Jannat, SM Tareq - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) contamination in fish species is one of the emerging environmental
problems due to the proliferation of plastic pollution in the environment. The occurrence of …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental chemicals, breast cancer progression and drug resistance

M Koual, C Tomkiewicz, G Cano-Sancho… - Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common causes of cancer in the world and the second
leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Mortality is associated mainly with the …

Human exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds: Their role in reproductive systems, metabolic syndrome and breast cancer. A review

M Giulivo, ML de Alda, E Capri, D Barceló - Environmental research, 2016 - Elsevier
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are released into the environment from different
sources. They are mainly used in packaging industries, pesticides and food constituents …

[HTML][HTML] State of the evidence 2017: an update on the connection between breast cancer and the environment

JM Gray, S Rasanayagam, C Engel, J Rizzo - Environmental Health, 2017 - Springer
Background In this review, we examine the continually expanding and increasingly
compelling data linking radiation and various chemicals in our environment to the current …

Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead

WH Goodson III, L Lowe, DO Carpenter… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Lifestyle factors are responsible for a considerable portion of cancer incidence worldwide,
but credible estimates from the World Health Organization and the International Agency for …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt signaling pathway protein LEF1 in cancer, as a biomarker for prognosis and a target for treatment

L Santiago, G Daniels, D Wang… - American journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transcription factors are regulatory proteins that either activate or repress the transcription of
genes via binding to DNA regulatory sequences and regulating recruitment of transcriptional …

[HTML][HTML] Bioactive compounds from marine sponges: Fundamentals and applications

D Varijakzhan, JY Loh, WS Yap, K Yusoff, R Seboussi… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine sponges are sessile invertebrates that can be found in temperate, polar and tropical
regions. They are known to be major contributors of bioactive compounds, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating inflammatory monocytes with a unique microRNA gene signature ameliorates murine ALS

O Butovsky, S Siddiqui, G Gabriely… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease associated with neuronal cell
death that is thought to involve aberrant immune responses. Here we investigated the role of …