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Food packaging and endocrine disruptors
Objectives: Narrative review evaluating food contamination by endocrine disruptors present in food packaging. Data source: The terms “endocrine disruptors” and “food packaging” were used in combination in the PubMed, MEDLINE and SciELO databases ...
Leila Cristina Pedroso de Paula +1 more
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BackgroundVitamin D3 is largely involved in the regulation of calcium homeostasis. More recently, it was demonstrated that vitamin D exerts several beneficial effects against cancer progression through several mechanisms, including the reduction of ...
Francesca Coperchini +13 more
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Background The suspected or actual effects on health of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) and their ubiquitous presence in everyday life justify the implementation of health promotion interventions. These interventions should ideally be applied during
Houria E. L. Ouazzani +13 more
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Drug repositioning in thyroid cancer treatment: the intriguing case of anti-diabetic drugs
Cancer represents the main cause of death worldwide. Thyroid cancer (TC) shows an overall good rate of survival, however there is a percentage of patients that do not respond or are refractory to common therapies.
Alessia Greco +11 more
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Endocrine disruptors in foods: Overlooked factors contributing to the prevalence of obesity
Endocrine disruptors, also known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals, could mimic or interfere with the body's hormones. Indeed, naturally occurring endocrine disruptors have been widely identified in daily foods.
Wenli Wu +5 more
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Thyroid Disrupting Effects of Old and New Generation PFAS
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent a group of synthetic compounds widely used in industry plants due to their low grade of degradation, surfactant properties, thermic and flame resistance.
Francesca Coperchini +10 more
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SARS-COV-2 virus is responsible for the ongoing devastating pandemic. Since the early phase of the pandemic, the “cytokine-storm” appeared a peculiar aspect of SARS-COV-2 infection which, at least in the severe cases, is responsible for respiratory treat
Francesca Coperchini +4 more
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Endocrine disruptors as promoters of biosphere carcinogenic background
The main aim of the study is to analyze modern knowledge on endocrine disruptors, non-genotoxic carcinogens, contributing significantly to the total level of contamination of the biosphere by anthropogenic blastomogens.Material and Methods.
G. A. Belitsky +5 more
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Role of Chemokines in Thyroid Cancer Microenvironment: Is CXCL8 the Main Player?
Tumor-related inflammation does influence the biological behavior of neoplastic cells and ultimately the patient’s outcome. With specific regard to thyroid cancer, the issue of tumor-associated inflammation has been extensively studied and recently ...
Mario Rotondi +3 more
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Editorial: Thyroid endocrine disruptors [PDF]
Leonidas H. Duntas, Luca Chiovato
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