Endocrine systems thyroid dysfunction

Endocrine system Thyroid dysfunction Sexual disfunction Gynecomastia Addison syndrome Galactorrhea... 

Ammonium perchlorate (AP) has apphcations in munitions, primarily as an oxidizer for solid rocket and missile propellants. It is also used as an air-bag inflator in the automotive industry, in fireworks, and is a contaminant in agricultural fertilizers. Because of these uses and ammonium perchlorate s high solubility, chemical stability, and persistence, it has become distributed widely in surface and ground water systems. There is little information about the effects of perchlorate in these systems or on the aquatic life that inhabits them. However, it is known that perchlorate is an endocrine disrupting chemical that interferes with normal thyroid function and that thyroid dysfunction impacts both growth and development in vertebrates. Because perchlorate competes for iodine binding sites in the thyroid, the addition of iodine to culture water has been examined in order to determine if... 

It is known that chemicals suspect of causing alterations in the endocrine system such as EDCs are potentially associated wifli several diseases such as testicle, breast and prostate cancer, reduction in the spermatozoid rate, deformities in the reproductive organs, thyroid dysfunctions and alterations related to the neurological system (Rivas et al., 1997 Jimenez, 1997 Ghiselli and Jardim, 2007). 

Notes iodine or iodine moduiators may have potentiai uses as moduiators of the endocrine axis, thus treating diseases such as syndrome X, infertiiity, and growth retardation, increased production of thyroid hormone in the presence of high iodine ieveis ieads to increased catechoiamine production, which in turn may produce age-reiated sympathetic bias, a process that appears to drive many of the systemic dysfunctions associated with aging. 

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