Larry L. Needham

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 2002-2008

Study types

  • article 6

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • infertility 1
article 2008
Chemosphere ·doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.10.005

Endometriosis among women of reproductive age can result in pain and infertility. The objectives of this study were to test if there is a relation between endometriosis and serum dioxin concentrations as expressed by total toxic equivalence…

article 2007
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/gam018

Exposure to dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been suggested as a possible etiologic factor for endometriosis, but the association remains highly controversial. To assess whether cytochrome P450 (CYP) gene polymorphisms modul…

article 2005
·doi:10.1093/aje/161.supplement_1.s30
article 2005
Environmental research ·doi:10.1016/j.envres.2005.04.003

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been proposed as risk factors for endometriosis. Persistent organochlorine compounds, a group of suspected EDCs, are present to some extent in almost all human adipose tissue and blood via the food…

article 2002
Environmental health perspectives ·doi:10.1289/ehp.02110629

Dioxin, a ubiquitous contaminant of industrial combustion processes including medical waste incineration, has been implicated in the etiology of endometriosis in animals. We sought to determine whether dioxin exposure is associated with end…

article 2002