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From: Wendy Hessler <whessler at glx.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 3:04 PM
Subject: Oct 00: E.hormone Conference Summary
> WHAT¹S NEW ON CBR¹S
> ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS AND OTHER HORMONES
> WEB SITE
>> OCTOBER 2000 E.HORMONE CONFERENCE SUMMARY
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> Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones web site
>http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/>> Environmental Concepts Made Easy web site
>http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/>> Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier
> Universities
>http://www.som.tulane.edu/cbr>> Environmental hormone 2000
>http://e.hormone.tulane.edu> ******************************************************
>>> o E.HORMONE 2000 CONFERENCE SUMMARIES (Updated 11/1/00)
> (e.hormone 2000, October 15-18, New Orleans, LA)
>>http://dev.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/sources/conference/reviews/>>> Selected session summaries:
>http://dev.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/sources/conference/reviews/> ehormone10_00.html
>> -- Rising rates of male reproductive problems not random
>> -- Hormones and genetics play roles in fibroid tumors
>> -- Lasers treat fibroids without hysterectomy
>> -- Mediterranean Sea swordfish, dolphins, whales contaminated
>> -- TBT may act as neurotoxin to cause snail imposex
>> -- Pharmaceuticals found in drinking water and wastewater
>> -- Europe and US face different problems regulating meat hormones
>> -- Orphan nuclear receptors next frontier in ED receptor research
>> -- Exposing unborns to EEs may be reason for Norway¹s high
> testicular cancer rate
>> -- Invertebrates/vertebrates differ in ED targets and affects
>> -- Arguments for and against an all-encompassing ED theory
>> -- Controlling DNA methylation could provide breast cancer
> treatment
>> -- Newest discoveries about estrogen receptors alpha and beta
>>>> Selected poster summaries from 37 posters presented:
>http://dev.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/sources/conference/reviews/> ehormposter10_00.html
>> -- EDs found in Japanese women¹s umbilical cord blood
>> -- Pesticides raise incidence of infectious disease in Mexican
> children
>> -- Corals can accumulate estrone from marine waters
>> -- A newly found nuclear receptor protein in coral is similar to
> a vertebrate orphan receptor
>> -- Insecticide can alter sexual reproduction in the invertebrate
> Daphnia
>> -- Masculanized female mosquitofish are smaller, have fewer
> eggs/embryos
>> -- The androgen androstenedione probably masculanizes female
> mosquitofish
>> -- The androgen 17-alpha methyltestosterone also masculanizes
> female fish
>> -- Alligator eggshells thicker in contaminated water
>> -- Alligator blood hormone levels and sex ratios differ between
> sampling sites
>> -- Everglade alligators have higher thyroxine blood levels
>> -- Female alligators in a contaminated lake have smaller spleen
> and thymus
>> -- Unaltered testosterone production in lab alligators suggests
> permanent, egg-related changes in wild animals
>> -- DDT can produce estrogenic responses without using estrogen
> receptors
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