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Endocrine disruption in juvenile roach from English rivers: A preliminary study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Juvenile roach Rutilus rutilus from seven rivers of varying water quality were examined for evidence of endocrine disruption. The majority of roach from five of these rivers had femalelike reproductive ducts.
Beresford, NA   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Biologia, direito, perspectiva queer e intersexualidade

open access: yesTeoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2018
RESUMO: Partindo da narrativa biográfica de uma estudante de Santarém, no estado do Pará, Brasil, da literatura bioantropológica e bioarqueológica sobre dimorfismo sexual e da perspectiva queer, ponderaremos sobre a necessidade de se rever os sistemas ...
Fabiano Gontijo
doaj   +1 more source

Induction of sex ratio change and intersex in Tegillarca granosa (Bivalvia: Arcidae) by waterborne zinc exposure

open access: yesAquaculture Reports, 2021
This study aims to investigate the effect of zinc on the sex ratio and intersexuality of Tegillarca granosa, a sequential hermaphroditic bivalve that undergoes sex change during the gonadal inactive stage. Groups of T.
Hyeon Jin Kim   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endocrine disruption in wildlife: The future? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Probably the only thing that can be said with certainty about the future of this field of ecotoxicology is that predicting it is foolish; the chances of being right are very slim.
Sumpter, JP
core   +1 more source

Inter-population variability in the reproductive morphology of the shore crab (Carcinus maenas): Evidence of endocrine disruption in a marine crustacean? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Environmental contaminants that are capable of causing endocrine disrupting effects are currently a major cause for concern. These chemicals are known to influence the reproductive development of vertebrates by mimicking or antagonising the actions of ...
Brian, JV
core   +1 more source

Progress and opportunities in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health communications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This article describes elements of effective health communication and highlights strategies that may best be adopted or adapted in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations.
Drabble, Laurie A   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Une polémique sur les théories sexuelles de Gregorio Marañón dans les années 1930

open access: yesHistoire, Médecine et Santé, 2018
At the beginning of the 1930s, in Barcelona, when sexuality became a promising scientific theme in Spain, a young Hungarian psychologist, Oliver Brachfeld, questioned the sexual theories of the famous endocrinologist Gregorio Marañón, twenty years older ...
Jean-Louis Guereña
doaj   +1 more source

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANT INTERSEX: THE JURIDICO‐ETHICAL DILEMMA OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC LEGAL RESPONSE

open access: yesZygon, 2015
Technological advances in the field of medicine and health sciences not only manipulate the normal human body and sex but also provide for surgical and hormonal management of hermaphroditism (intersexuality). Consequently, sex assignment surgery has not
doaj   +2 more sources

DsiRNA‐mediated silencing of Ceratitis capitata transformer or transformer‐2 leads to masculinization of XX embryos and systemic gene silencing in ovaries

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
We carried out functional studies using Dicer‐substrate small interfering RNAs (DsiRNAs), targeting the sex determination genes Cctransformer (Cctra) and Cctransformer‐2 (Cctra‐2) in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). Microinjection of DsiRNAs into XX embryos (0‐1 h old) rapidly triggered the expression of male‐specific Cctra isoforms ...
Gennaro Volpe   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

La monstrueuse perfection : l’illustration poétique de XXY

open access: yesAmerika, 2014
Alex, the main protagonist of XXY, the film directed by Lucia Puenzo and released in 2007 ; looks like an unusual kind of monster. This article proposes to analyse this film by looking at its poetical and symbolic load.
Eva Tilly
doaj   +1 more source

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