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ReviewAnnual review of pharmacology and toxicology2012

Perinatal environmental exposures affect mammary development, function, and cancer risk in adulthood.

Suzanne E Fenton, Casey Reed, Retha R Newbold

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Review in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Public health evaluation of PFAS exposures and breastfeeding: a systematic literature review.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2023
    Pooled it
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  4. Exposure to brominated flame retardantsFrontiers in endocrinology · 2024
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  8. Developmental toxicity of cadmium in infants and children: a review.Environmental analysis, health and toxicology · 2021
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  9. Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Risk of Breast Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  17. Genome-wide average DNA methylation is determined in utero.International journal of epidemiology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Suzanne E FentonDivision of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA. fentonse@niehs.nih.gov
Casey Reed
Retha R Newbold
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · USNational Institutes of Health · USUnited States Department of Health and Human Services · US

Funding

Mammary Gland as a Sensitive End Point to Effects of Endocrine DisruptorsZIAES102785 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FENTON, SUZANNE · 2010 to 2021
$38.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102785
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Puberty is an important transition that enables reproduction of mammalian species. Precocious puberty, specifically early thelarche (the appearance of breast "buds"), in girls of multiple ethnic backgrounds is a major health problem in the United States and other countries. The cause for a continued decrease in the age of breast development in girls is unknown, but environmental factors likely play a major role. Laboratory and epidemiological studies have identified several individual environmental factors that affect breast development, but further progress is needed. Current research needs include increased attention to and recording of prenatal and neonatal environmental exposures, testing of marketed chemicals for effects on the mammary gland, and understanding of the mammary gland-specific mechanisms that are altered by chemicals. Such research is required to halt the increasing trend toward puberty at earlier ages.

Indexed as

AnimalsBody WeightBreastBreast NeoplasmsDietEndocrine DisruptorsEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental PollutantsFemaleHumansPerinatal CarePubertyPuberty, PrecociousReproductionRisk FactorsRodentiaEndocrine DisruptorsEnvironmental Pollutants

Identifiers

PMID22017681
PMCPMC3477544
OpenAlexW2146945066

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Registered trials

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