Manolis Kogevinas

ORCID: 0000-0002-9605-0461 · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2013

In utero exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds and anogenital distance in newborns and infants

Environmental health perspectives ·doi:10.1289/ehp.1205221

BACKGROUND: Anogenital distance in animals is used as a measure of fetal androgen action. Prenatal exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in rodents causes reproductive changes in male offspring and decreases anogenital distance. OB…

review 2001

Human health effects of dioxins: cancer, reproductive and endocrine system effects

·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0463.2001.tb05771.x

Polychlorinated dioxins, furans and polychlorinated benzene constitute a family of toxic persistent environmental pollutants. In Europe, environmental concentrations increased slowly throughout this century until the late 1980s. Dioxins hav…