Abstract The endocrine system comprises glands and tissues that produce hormones to regulate and coordinate vital bodily functions. This article – the last in an eight-part series – discusses the ...

The word endocrine comes from the Greek words “endo,” meaning within, and “crinis,” meaning to secrete. Put the two together and you get glands — those hormone-producing organs that ...

This system is necessary for the activation and control of behavior such as sex, emotion, stress responses, eating, drinking, and regulating bodily functions like growth, reproduction, energy use ...

The remaining 80 percent of endocrine disruptors function via other general mechanisms to produce adverse nervous system effects. Therefore, the researchers establish the novel concept that endocrine ...

Specifically, endocrine disruptors have been found to impair adrenal steroidogenesis by modulating the functions of aromatase, 5-α reductase, and hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases.

Some of these conditions are part of the endocrine system, leading some scientists to conclude that EDCs are to blame. There is proof of human endocrine disruption in one well-known case, though.

The endocrine system comprises glands and tissues that produce hormones to regulate and coordinate vital bodily functions. This article, the third in an eight-part series on the endocrine system, ...