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Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A & Phthalates on Child Development
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hormones play a critical role in many processes in our bodies, particularly in the reproductive system and in brain development. Some chemicals, known as endocrine disruptors, can interfere with the body’s natural hormones by blocking or altering normal hormone function resulting in long-term mental and physical health effects.
At this center, researchers study the effects of two endocrine disruptors that are commonly used in pesticides, plastics and many other products and are also found in vehicle exhaust: bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates. These chemicals have the potential to impact the human developmental hormones because BPA mimics the female hormone estrogen, and phthalates can disrupt the production of male hormones such as testosterone and change the way the body responds to them. Scientists at this center examine the health risks of being exposed to these chemicals in the womb or during adolescence and aim to discover how these problems can be limited and prevented.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS)
Ambient Particle Health Effects: Exposure, Susceptibility, and Mechanisms
FRIENDS Children's Environmental Health Center
Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center
- Original Abstract
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- Final Report
Harvard Particle Center
Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
The Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA)
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science
Metal Mixtures and Children’s Health
Center for Children’s Environmental Health and DiseasePreventionResearch (P01) (joint EPA and NIEHS) - CHAMACOS
- Original Abstract
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- Final Report
Endotoxin Exposure and Asthma in Children
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) & Phthalates on Child Development
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- Final Report
Berkeley/Stanford Children’s Environmental Health Center
Great Lakes Air Center for Integrative Environmental Research (GLACIER)
Air Pollution Mixtures: Health Effects Across Life Stages
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Novel Methods to Assess the Effects of Chemicals on Child Development
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS)
- Original Abstract
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing across the Life Course
- Original Abstract
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- Final Report
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