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- noun The condition of being
estrogenic
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Examples
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A team led by L. Earl Gray, Jr. at the EPA's Research Triangle center in North Carolina found the alleged "endocrine disruptor" so weak that even at levels of exposure 4,000 times higher than the maximum exposure of humans in the general population, "BPA did not display any estrogenicity."
Jon Entine: With the European Union and a Slew of New Studies Reaffirming the Safety of BPA, At What Point Will the Science Prevail? Jon Entine 2010
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A was first synthesized in 1891, the first evidence of its estrogenicity came from experiments in the 1930's feeding BPA to ovariectomised rats (Dodds and Lawson 1936, 1938).
Consumer Reports Concerned about The Chemical Bisphenol A 2009
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Examining the estrogenicity of the metabolized preparation using the yeast estrogenicity assay, they found that rat microsomes were more effective at reducing estrogenicity than human microsomes.
Hippie swag bottles pose significant health risk | Jewschool 2007
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Junghans M, Eggen RI (2007) Testing estrogenicity of known and novel (xeno -) estrogens in the MolDarT using developing zebrafish (Danio rerio).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gayathri Chandrasekar et al. 2010
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Newbold RR, Tully DB, Chae K, Davis VL (1996) Assessing environmental chemicals for estrogenicity using a combination of in vitro and in vivo assays.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gayathri Chandrasekar et al. 2010
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Maggs JL, Ashby J, Park BK (2001) Comparison of the modulatory effects of human and rat liver microsomal metabolism on the estrogenicity of bisphenol A: Implications for extrapolation to humans.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Melzer et al. 2010
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And multiuse PET bottles showed lower estrogenicity than the bottles meant for one-time use.
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research rg Oehlmann of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Germany) report evidence of the bottles 'estrogenicity from multiple tests, but they have yet to pinpoint the exact source.
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Pne PET-bottled brand of water also registered no estrogenicity,.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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For all but one brand, mineral water stored in plastic bottles had higher estrogenicity than the same water stored in glass bottles.
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