Prenatal bisphenol a exposure and dysregulation of infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function: findings from the APrON cohort study

• Main Authors: Gerald F Giesbrecht (Author), Maede Ejaredar (Author), Jiaying Liu (Author), Jenna Thomas (Author), Nicole Letourneau (Author), Tavis Campbell (Author), Jonathan W Martin (Author), Deborah Dewey (Author), the APrON Study Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Animal models show that prenatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure leads to sexually dimorphic disruption of the neuroendocrine system in offspring, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) neuroendocrine system, but human data are lacking. In humans, prenatal BPA exposure is...