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[Endocrine disruption and organochlorine pesticides]
1Service de Toxicologie clinique, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Acta Clinica Belgica
|April 27, 2002
Abstract:
Xenoestrogens such organochlorine pesticides are known to induce changes in reproductive development, function or behaviour in wildlife. Because these compounds are able to modify the estrogens metabolism, or to compete with estradiol for binding to the estrogen receptor, it may be possible that these products affect the risk of developing impaired fertility, precocious puberty or some kinds of cancer in man.