1. Professor, Unidad de Biomedicina, Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. De Los Barrios No. 1 Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, Edo. De México, 54090 MEXICO. 2. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Microbiology. Starling Loving Hall M418. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 3. Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, U...

Environmental agencies have identified a growing number of environmental contaminants that have endocrine disrupting activity, and these can become a major public health problem. It is suggested that endocrine disruptors could account for the higher-than-expected increase in the prevalence of some non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, thyroid diseases, and some cancers. Several ...

In the last few decades, a number of reciprocal associations between endocrine system dysfunctions and neurological or psychiatric manifestations have appeared, and only in the minority of the cases this link has been fully elucidated (1). Unfortunately, the complexity, and sometimes also the severity, of the clinical issues and the limited availability of reliable experimental models for the s...