estrogenic
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- adjective
- /ˌɛstrəˈdʒɛnɪk/
- Specialized
- Estrogenic activity was also reported for 2-fluorene and 1-pyrene (Schultz and Sinks 2002).
- estrogenic effect
- estrogenic activity
- estrogenic potency
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Watch on YouTubeSo when it came out that BPA was estrogenic, which is what it is.
- So when it came out that BPA was estrogenic, which is what it is.
- And I think the fact that we're just inundated now with these estrogenic compounds, that's one major source of despair for our, our, you know, our endocrine system.
- It mimics estrogen in ways that can activate or block estrogenic pathways, so it messes up hormone pathways either by activating them or blocking them.
Examples
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By comparing the structure-activity relationship between these PFCs, we propose that the iodine substitution is a key attribute for the estrogenic effect.
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They'll strip out most, in some cases all of these estrogenic compounds from the effluent discharges.
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Little information is currently available regarding the estrogenic effects of PFIs.
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To our knowledge, this is the first study to find estrogenic activity of PFIs using three in vitro methods.
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In the present study, we found that PFOA, PFOB, and PFOC also lack estrogenic effects.
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In the present study, we used the MVLN assay to further investigate ER activity and estrogenic potency of PFIs.
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In the screening assays, 1-iodohexane did not exert estrogenic effects, indicating that fluorination is an important structural feature for estrogenic activity.
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SERMs are estrogen receptor modulators that are estrogenic for some tissues and antiestrogenic for others.
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Additionally, investigators have proposed that these lesions may be hamartomatous or might result from in utero stimulation from estrogenic hormones.
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Licorice, anise, and fennel contain chemicals called phytoestrogens, and these compounds perform gentle estrogenic actions in the body.
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Etymology
Estrogenic comes from estrogen, which itself combines the root oestro- meaning 'in heat' or 'to excite' and -gen meaning 'to produce', like in generate, with the ending -ic meaning 'related to'. So estrogenic describes something that acts like or produces effects similar to the hormone estrogen.