Impact of Environmental Endocrine Disruption on the Reproductive System for Human Health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are environmental chemicals that interfere with physiological systems, adversely affecting hormone balance (endocrine system), or disrupting normal function in the organs which hormones regulate or modulate, i.e., the female and male reproductive systems. Although endocrine disruption is a global concern for human health, its impact and significance and the screening strategy for detecting these synthetic or man-made chemicals are not well described in female and male reproductive functions. Thus, this review summarizes the interference of environmental EDs on reproductive development and function, and introduces biomarkers and screening methods for EDs in in vitro and in vivo models, in particular, female reproductive system. These methods include studying of the uterine expression of Calbindin-D9k (CaBP-9k), a cytosolic calcium binding protein regulated by estrogenic or progestogenic compounds. In addition, this review highlights the effect of exposure to multiple EDs on reproductive functions, and brings attention to major sources of exposure. Keywords: Endocrine disruption, steroids, estrogenic chemicals, uterus, ovary
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".