Sheikh IA

ORCID: 0000-0003-3963-9453 · 4 papers in corpus
other 2020
Toxics ·doi:10.3390/toxics8040115

Diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) is a commonly used plasticizer in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride plastics for household and commercial use. DEHP is a ubiquitous ecocontaminant and causes developmental and reproductive problems in child…

other 2016
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151444

Phthalates are a class of high volume production chemicals used as plasticizers for household and industrial use. Several members of this chemical family have endocrine disrupting activity. Owing to ubiquitous environmental distribution and…

other 2016
BMC structural biology ·doi:10.1186/s12900-016-0066-4

BACKGROUND: Di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) is a common endocrine disrupting compound (EDC) present in the environment as a result of industrial activity and leaching from polyvinyl products. DEHP is used as a plasticizer in medical devic…

other 2016
Journal of applied toxicology : JAT ·doi:10.1002/jat.3302

Di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) is a phthalate plasticizer and is one of the very common endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) contaminating our ecosystem. It is used for imparting flexibility to plastics and frequently used in personal a…