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Environmental Oestrogens: Foe or Friend?
Author(s) -
Richard M. Sharpe
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of neuroendocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1365-2826
pISSN - 0953-8194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2004.t01-1-01242.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , library science , computer science
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?