Abstract
This chapter reviews the evidence that environmental factors have a role in the etiology of reproductive abnormalities. The actions of hormonally active agents, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, that may alter the synthesis, secretion, transport, binding, or elimination of natural hormones are highlighted. This chapter also highlights the need for and organized collection of data to further analyze the involvemnet of environmental factors in reproductive anomalies. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.
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Peterson, C. M., Carrell, D. T., Varner, M., Stanford, J., Croughan, M., & Louis, G. B. (2010). The environment and reproduction: Endocrine disruption, reproductive impairment, and epigenetics. In Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: Integrating Modern Clinical and Laboratory Practice (pp. 781–803). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1436-1_55
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