title: Environmental oestrogens: foe or friend?
abstract: Oestrogens act throughout the body and are important "shapers" of development, including of brain sexual differentiation. This has raised concern that environmental oestrogens could affect such processes. However, experience with studies of the male reproductive tract suggests that most environmental oestrogens are too weak to pose such a threat. Conversely, as emerging data suggest that oestrogens have health-beneficial effects on the brain, could environmental oestrogens actually be good for us?
authors.affiliation: MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sharpe
mesh_terms: D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects; D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D030262:Soybean Proteins; D013025:Glycine max
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal; D030262:Soybean Proteins