The case for understanding the impact of EDCs on reproduction is enlightening because of the long-standing literature for diminished fertility and reproductive abnormalities in wildlife, laboratory animals, and human populations.
Through his research, he found that the chemical had serious adverse effects on the sexual development of frogs, causing mutations and other reproductive abnormalities.
High DDT levels in birds were associated with fragile eggshells and reproductive abnormalities.
Health implications from long-term exposure to toxic pesticide levels may include learning difficulties, hormone disruption and reproductive abnormalities, Greenpeace said.
Common frogs that make their homes in suburban areas are more likely than their rural counterparts to develop the reproductive abnormalities previously found in fish in the Potomac and Mississippi Rivers, according to the study by David Skelly, a professor of ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
It contradicted hundreds of studies showing that at extremely low doses BPA causes numerous reproductive abnormalities and other health effects related to the endocrine system, like obesity and diabetes.
Super-dwarf wheat grown on the Mir space station using the Svet "Greenhouse" exhibited morphological, metabolic and reproductive abnormalities compared with Earth-grown wheat.
Reproductive abnormalities in leopard frogs have been observed in other studies at these concentrations.
Aphrosidiac effects of Pteleopsis suberosa, may find clinical application in reproductive abnormalities.
Epidemiological studies suggest that endocrine disruptors are associated to many worldwide increasing human diseases such as obesity, reproductive abnormalities, cancer, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular risk, autism, and epigenetic alterations.
Therefore it was hypothesised that these chemicals may also affect neuro-endocrine pathways, causing morphological and reproductive abnormalities in non-target Crustacea.
