Reproductive and Metabolic Health Following Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Mechanistic Insights from Mammalian Models

M Bellingham, NP Evans, RG Lea… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The decline in human reproductive and metabolic health over the past 50 years is
associated with exposure to complex mixtures of anthropogenic environmental chemicals …

Overview of the mechanisms of action of selected bisphenols and perfluoroalkyl chemicals on the male reproductive axes

M Ješeta, J Navrátilová, K Franzová, S Fialková… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Male fertility has been deteriorating worldwide for considerable time, with the greatest
deterioration recorded mainly in the United States, Europe countries, and Australia. That is …

The promises and challenges of toxico-epigenomics: environmental chemicals and their impacts on the epigenome

FFL Chung, Z Herceg - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: It has been estimated that a substantial portion of chronic and
noncommunicable diseases can be caused or exacerbated by exposure to environmental …

Environmental exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals influences genomic imprinting, growth, and metabolism

N Robles-Matos, T Artis, RA Simmons, MS Bartolomei - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic mechanism that results in monoallelic, parent-of-origin-
specific expression of a small number of genes. Imprinted genes play a crucial role in …

Androgen signaling in male fishes: Examples of anti-androgenic chemicals that cause reproductive disorders

M Golshan, SMH Alavi - Theriogenology, 2019 - Elsevier
Similar to other vertebrates, androgens regulate spermatogenesis in fishes. In teleosts, the
main androgen is 11-Ketotestosterone (11-KT), which is oxidized testosterone (T) at the C …

Pharmacoepigenetic processors: epigenetic drugs, drug resistance, toxicoepigenetics, and nutriepigenetics

R Cacabelos, JC Carril, A Sanmartín, P Cacabelos - Pharmacoepigenetics, 2019 - Elsevier
The pharmacoepigenetic apparatus is integrated by gene clusters of different categories,
including (i) pathogenic genes involved in disease pathogenesis,(ii) mechanistic genes …

Maternal Microdeletion at the H19/Igf2 ICR in Mice Increases Offspring Susceptibility to In Utero Environmental Perturbation

A Pal, J Oakes, M Elnagheeb… - Epigenetics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Deficiency of methyl donor nutrients folate, choline, and methionine (methyl deficiency)
during gestation can impair fetal development and perturb DNA methylation. Here, we …

Impact of environmental chemicals and endocrine disruptors on mammalian germ cell epigenome

F Pacchierotti, B Benassi, E Cordelli - Epigenetics and Reproductive Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Exposure to environmental chemicals has been proven to drive epigenetic changes in male
and female germ cells. We here review those experimental and human studies that …

Endocrine Disruptors: Very Low Doses with Genuinely High Impacts on Male Reproduction

M Ješeta, J Nevoral - Male Reproductive Health, 2019 - books.google.com
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are chemical substances that affect physiological processes in
the body via hormonal regulation. They are often detected in food, plastic water bottles …

Transgenerational epigenetics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in mammals

L Casati, F Celotti - Transgenerational Epigenetics, 2019 - Elsevier
Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance represents the germ line transmission of
epigenetic information, known as sperm or ovary epimutations, between generations without …