chemicals in the environment

Modeling the interaction between macromolecular targets and chemicals in the environment will provide input in the establishment of priorities for types of bioassays.

Various chemicals in the environment can disrupt normal endocrine function, including steroid hormone synthesis, causing deleterious effects.

Because these compounds can act at different levels of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis, their effects can lead to a mixture of responses difficult to characterize.

In this work, we exposed ovarian tissue of fathead minnows to the steroidogenesis inhibitor ketoconazole in order to determine its in vitro effects.

Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device -- some of which would dominate a living room -- to identify tiny amounts of chemicals in the environment.

(University of Nottingham) Researchers at the University of Nottingham are set to take part in one of the first studies of the effect of environmental chemicals on female mammals.