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Photo: Toxic Gonads On Endocrine disrupters
Your Gonads On Endocrine Disrupters
Your gonads are a part o what doctors call the endocrine system.
Picture & Excerpt from the article, "New Concerns About Phthalates"
The normal testis, left, comes from a healthy male rat. Tissues center and right come from a rat exposed to DEHP while its reproductive tract was maturing. The center tissue is a small testis filled with fluid. The corresponding tissue from the other side of the same animal exhibits no visible testis or sperm-storing epididymis. Another DEHP-exposed animal from the same set of EPA tests developed a "testis" that was nothing but a sack of blood.
Article Title: New Concerns about Phthalates.
(cover story)
Source: Science News, 09/02/2000, Vol.
158 Issue 10, p152, 3p, 5c
Author(s): RALOFF, JANET
Abstract: Reports on concerns about phthalates, which serve as softeners that make rigid materials turn flexible. Linkage between cancer in adults to heavy exposure to some phthalates; Findings that a few phthalates have the potential to disrupt boys' reproductive development; Description of the research to test phthalates levels in humans.
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posted 06/18/08
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