10 results on '"Zoeller, R. Thomas"'
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2. Impacts of food contact chemicals on human health: a consensus statement
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Muncke, Jane, Andersson, Anna-Maria, Backhaus, Thomas, Boucher, Justin M., Carney Almroth, Bethanie, Castillo Castillo, Arturo, Chevrier, Jonathan, Demeneix, Barbara A., Emmanuel, Jorge A., Fini, Jean-Baptiste, Gee, David, Geueke, Birgit, Groh, Ksenia, Heindel, Jerrold J., Houlihan, Jane, Kassotis, Christopher D., Kwiatkowski, Carol F., Lefferts, Lisa Y., Maffini, Maricel V., Martin, Olwenn V., Myers, John Peterson, Nadal, Angel, Nerin, Cristina, Pelch, Katherine E., Fernández, Seth Rojello, Sargis, Robert M., Soto, Ana M., Trasande, Leonardo, Vandenberg, Laura N., Wagner, Martin, Wu, Changqing, Zoeller, R. Thomas, and Scheringer, Martin
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- 2020
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3. Urinary concentrations of phthalate biomarkers and weight change among postmenopausal women: a prospective cohort study
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Díaz Santana, Mary V., Hankinson, Susan E., Bigelow, Carol, Sturgeon, Susan R., Zoeller, R. Thomas, Tinker, Lesley, Manson, Jo Ann E., Calafat, Antonia M., Meliker, Jaymie R., and Reeves, Katherine W.
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- 2019
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4. Correction to: Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors
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Heindel, Jerrold J., vom Saal, Frederick S., Blumberg, Bruce, Bovolin, Patrizia, Calamandrei, Gemma, Ceresini, Graziano, Cohn, Barbara A., Fabbri, Elena, Gioiosa, Laura, Kassotis, Christopher, Legler, Juliette, La Merrill, Michele, Rizzi, Laura, Machtinger, Ronit, Mantovani, Alberto, Mendez, Michelle A., Montanini, Luisa, Molteni, Laura, Nagel, Susan C., Parmigiani, Stefano, Panzica, Giancarlo, Paterlini, Silvia, Pomatto, Valentina, Ruzzin, Jérôme, Sartor, Giorgio, Schug, Thaddeus T., Street, Maria E., Suvorov, Alexander, Volpi, Riccardo, Zoeller, R. Thomas, and Palanza, Paola
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- 2017
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5. Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors
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Heindel, Jerrold J., vom Saal, Frederick S., Blumberg, Bruce, Bovolin, Patrizia, Calamandrei, Gemma, Ceresini, Graziano, Cohn, Barbara A., Fabbri, Elena, Gioiosa, Laura, Kassotis, Christopher, Legler, Juliette, La Merrill, Michele, Rizzir, Laura, Machtinger, Ronit, Mantovani, Alberto, Mendez, Michelle A., Montanini, Luisa, Molteni, Laura, Nagel, Susan C., Parmigiani, Stefano, Panzica, Giancarlo, Paterlini, Silvia, Pomatto, Valentina, Ruzzin, Jérôme, Sartor, Giorgio, Schug, Thaddeus T., Street, Maria E., Suvorov, Alexander, Volpi, Riccardo, Zoeller, R. Thomas, and Palanza, Paola
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- 2015
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6. PBDE flame retardants, thyroid disease, and menopausal status in U.S. women.
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Allen, Joseph G., Gale, Sara, Zoeller, R. Thomas, Spengler, John D., Birnbaum, Linda, and McNeely, Eileen
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POLYBROMINATED diphenyl ethers ,FIREPROOFING agents ,THYROID diseases ,MENOPAUSE ,POISONS ,ENDOCRINE disruptors ,THYROID hormones ,ETHERS ,POLLUTANTS ,RESEARCH funding ,SURVEYS ,DISEASE prevalence ,ODDS ratio - Abstract
Background: Women have elevated rates of thyroid disease compared to men. Environmental toxicants have been implicated as contributors to this dimorphism, including polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), flame retardant chemicals that disrupt thyroid hormone action. PBDEs have also been implicated in the disruption of estrogenic activity, and estrogen levels regulate thyroid hormones. Post-menopausal women may therefore be particularly vulnerable to PBDE induced thyroid effects, given low estrogen reserves. The objective of this study was to test for an association between serum PBDE concentrations and thyroid disease in women from the United States (U.S.), stratified by menopause status.Methods: Serum PBDE concentrations (BDEs 47, 99, 100 and 153) from the National Health and Examination Survey (NHANES) and reports on thyroid problems were available in the NHANES 2003-2004 cycle. Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated using multivariate logistic regression models accounting for population-weighted survey techniques and controlling for age, body mass index (BMI), education, smoking, alcohol consumption and thyroid medication. Menopause status was obtained by self-reported absence of menstruation in the previous 12 months and declared menopause.Results: Women in the highest quartile of serum concentrations for BDEs 47, 99, and 100 had increased odds of currently having thyroid disease (ORs: 1.5, 1.8, 1.5, respectively) compared to the reference group (1st and 2nd quartiles combined); stronger associations were observed when the analysis was restricted to postmenopausal women (ORs: 2.2, 3.6, 2.0, respectively).Conclusion: Exposure to BDEs 47, 99, and 100 is associated with thyroid disease in a national sample of U.S. women, with greater effects observed post-menopause, suggesting that the disruption of thyroid signaling by PBDEs may be enhanced by the altered estrogen levels during menopause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2016
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7. Assessing dose-response relationships for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs): a focus on non-monotonicity.
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Zoeller, R. Thomas and Vandenberg, Laura N.
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POISONS , *ENDOCRINE disruptors , *ENDOCRINOLOGY , *TOXICOLOGY , *CHEMICALS , *EPIDEMIOLOGY - Abstract
The fundamental principle in regulatory toxicology is that all chemicals are toxic and that the severity of effect is proportional to the exposure level. An ancillary assumption is that there are no effects at exposures below the lowest observed adverse effect level (LOAEL), either because no effects exist or because they are not statistically resolvable, implying that they would not be adverse. Chemicals that interfere with hormones violate these principles in two important ways: dose-response relationships can be non-monotonic, which have been reported in hundreds of studies of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs); and effects are often observed below the LOAEL, including all environmental epidemiological studies examining EDCs. In recognition of the importance of this issue, Lagarde et al. have published the first proposal to qualitatively assess non-monotonic dose response (NMDR) relationships for use in risk assessments. Their proposal represents a significant step forward in the evaluation of complex datasets for use in risk assessments. Here, we comment on three elements of the Lagarde proposal that we feel need to be assessed more critically and present our arguments: 1) the use of Klimisch scores to evaluate study quality, 2) the concept of evaluating study quality without topical experts' knowledge and opinions, and 3) the requirement of establishing the biological plausibility of an NMDR before consideration for use in risk assessment. We present evidence-based logical arguments that 1) the use of the Klimisch score should be abandoned for assessing study quality; 2) evaluating study quality requires experts in the specific field; and 3) an understanding of mechanisms should not be required to accept observable, statistically valid phenomena. It is our hope to contribute to the important and ongoing debate about the impact of NMDRs on risk assessment with positive suggestions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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8. A path forward in the debate over health impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals.
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Zoeller RT, Bergman Å, Becher G, Bjerregaard P, Bornman R, Brandt I, Iguchi T, Jobling S, Kidd KA, Kortenkamp A, Skakkebaek NE, Toppari J, and Vandenberg LN
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- Health Impact Assessment trends, Humans, Risk Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors toxicity, Environmental Pollutants toxicity, Health Impact Assessment standards
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Several recent publications reflect debate on the issue of "endocrine disrupting chemicals" (EDCs), indicating that two seemingly mutually exclusive perspectives are being articulated separately and independently. Considering this, a group of scientists with expertise in basic science, medicine and risk assessment reviewed the various aspects of the debate to identify the most significant areas of dispute and to propose a path forward. We identified four areas of debate. The first is about the definitions for terms such as "endocrine disrupting chemical", "adverse effects", and "endocrine system". The second is focused on elements of hormone action including "potency", "endpoints", "timing", "dose" and "thresholds". The third addresses the information needed to establish sufficient evidence of harm. Finally, the fourth focuses on the need to develop and the characteristics of transparent, systematic methods to review the EDC literature. Herein we identify areas of general consensus and propose resolutions for these four areas that would allow the field to move beyond the current and, in our opinion, ineffective debate.
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- 2014
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9. Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: a reply to a "common sense" intervention by toxicology journal editors.
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Bergman Å, Andersson AM, Becher G, van den Berg M, Blumberg B, Bjerregaard P, Bornehag CG, Bornman R, Brandt I, Brian JV, Casey SC, Fowler PA, Frouin H, Giudice LC, Iguchi T, Hass U, Jobling S, Juul A, Kidd KA, Kortenkamp A, Lind M, Martin OV, Muir D, Ochieng R, Olea N, Norrgren L, Ropstad E, Ross PS, Rudén C, Scheringer M, Skakkebaek NE, Söder O, Sonnenschein C, Soto A, Swan S, Toppari J, Tyler CR, Vandenberg LN, Vinggaard AM, Wiberg K, and Zoeller RT
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- European Union, Government Regulation, Health Policy, Humans, Endocrine Disruptors toxicity, Environmental Exposure, Environmental Pollutants toxicity, Periodicals as Topic, Toxicology standards
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The "common sense" intervention by toxicology journal editors regarding proposed European Union endocrine disrupter regulations ignores scientific evidence and well-established principles of chemical risk assessment. In this commentary, endocrine disrupter experts express their concerns about a recently published, and is in our considered opinion inaccurate and factually incorrect, editorial that has appeared in several journals in toxicology. Some of the shortcomings of the editorial are discussed in detail. We call for a better founded scientific debate which may help to overcome a polarisation of views detrimental to reaching a consensus about scientific foundations for endocrine disrupter regulation in the EU.
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- 2013
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10. Analyzing in situ gene expression in the mouse brain with image registration, feature extraction and block clustering.
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Jagalur M, Pal C, Learned-Miller E, Zoeller RT, and Kulp D
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- Animals, Drosophila melanogaster embryology, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Gene Expression Regulation genetics, Mice, Brain Chemistry genetics, Brain Mapping methods, Cluster Analysis, Gene Expression Regulation physiology, In Situ Hybridization methods
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Background: Many important high throughput projects use in situ hybridization and may require the analysis of images of spatial cross sections of organisms taken with cellular level resolution. Projects creating gene expression atlases at unprecedented scales for the embryonic fruit fly as well as the embryonic and adult mouse already involve the analysis of hundreds of thousands of high resolution experimental images mapping mRNA expression patterns. Challenges include accurate registration of highly deformed tissues, associating cells with known anatomical regions, and identifying groups of genes whose expression is coordinately regulated with respect to both concentration and spatial location. Solutions to these and other challenges will lead to a richer understanding of the complex system aspects of gene regulation in heterogeneous tissue., Results: We present an end-to-end approach for processing raw in situ expression imagery and performing subsequent analysis. We use a non-linear, information theoretic based image registration technique specifically adapted for mapping expression images to anatomical annotations and a method for extracting expression information within an anatomical region. Our method consists of coarse registration, fine registration, and expression feature extraction steps. From this we obtain a matrix for expression characteristics with rows corresponding to genes and columns corresponding to anatomical sub-structures. We perform matrix block cluster analysis using a novel row-column mixture model and we relate clustered patterns to Gene Ontology (GO) annotations., Conclusion: Resulting registrations suggest that our method is robust over intensity levels and shape variations in ISH imagery. Functional enrichment studies from both simple analysis and block clustering indicate that gene relationships consistent with biological knowledge of neuronal gene functions can be extracted from large ISH image databases such as the Allen Brain Atlas 1 and the Max-Planck Institute 2 using our method. While we focus here on imagery and experiments of the mouse brain our approach should be applicable to a variety of in situ experiments.
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- 2007
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