Endocrine Disruptors Leading to Obesity and Related Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are exogenous compounds that act like hormones in the endocrine system and disrupt the physiologic function of endogenous hormones. EDs could either mimic the endogenous hormones causing over-responding or block the effects of a hormone from certain receptors, and, therefore, resulting in adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune system effects. Increasing evidence suggests that some EDs are able to interrupt some hormonally regulated metabolic processes, leading to obesity and related complications, which pose a great human health concern worldwide.

This Special Issue aims to provide a forum to collect most recent progresses in all aspects of EDs and their impacts on the development of obesity and related co-morbidities, such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Articles of the scientific findings on health effects, biomarkers and mechanisms of action of EDs leading to obesity/overweight and derived diseases, as well as on the epidemiology of the latter are solicited.

Dr. Huixiao Hong
Prof. Dr. Jingwen Chen
Guest Editors

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