UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment

Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Scientific Proceedings

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Table of Contents

Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility: executive summary
Tracey J. Woodruff, Alison Carlson, Jackie M. Schwartz and Linda C. Giudice

Environmental influences on fertility: can we learn lessons from studies of wildlife?
Louis J. Guillette Jr. and Thea M. Edwards

New conceptual frameworks and challenges in the investigation and practice of environmental reproductive health
Ted Schettler

Alternative measures of fertility compromise
Shanna H. Swan

The effect of environmental chemicals on human health
Linda S. Birnbaum

Testicular dysgenesis syndrome: mechanistic insights and potential new downstream effects
Richard M. Sharpe and Niels E. Skakkebaek

Can we prevent hypospadias?
Laurence S. Baskin

Developmental exposure to bisphenol A increases prostate cancer susceptibility in adult rats: epigenetic mode of action is implicated
Gail S. Prins, Wan-Yee Tang, Jessica Belmonte and Shuk-Mei Ho

Developmental origins of environmental reproductive health and fertility compromise
Rex Hess

Fetal and postnatal environmental exposures and reproductive health effects in the male: recent findings
Shanna H. Swan

Fetal and early postnatal environmental exposures and reproductive health effects in the female
Teresa K. Woodruff and Cheryl Lyn Walker

Fetal and early postnatal environmental contaminant exposures and reproductive health effects in the female
Warren G. Foster

Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Retha R. Newbold

Endocrine disruptors affect developmental programming of HOX gene expression
Hugh S. Taylor

Science linking environmental contaminant exposures with fertility and reproductive health impacts in the adult male
Russ Hauser and Rebecca Sokol

The challenges of assessing the quality of spermatozoa
Bernard Robaire

Does the male infertility clinical evaluation adequately assess toxicologic exposures?
Paul J. Turek

Science linking environmental contaminant exposures with fertility and reproductive health impacts in the adult male (respondent)
Michael P. Diamond

Link between low-dose environmentally relevant cadmium exposures and asthenozoospermia in a rat model
Susan Benoff, Karen Auborn, Joel L. Marmar and Ian R. Hurley

Science linking environmental contaminant exposures with fertility and reproductive health impacts in the adult female
Pauline Mendola, Lynne C. Messer and Kristen Rappazzo

Eggs from embryonic stem cells—an emerging tool to identify female reproductive risks?
Anne R. Greenlee

Bisphenol A exposure disrupts egg development in the mouse
Martha Susiarjo and Patricia Hunt

Environmental neuroendocrine and thyroid disruption: relevance for reproductive medicine?
R. Thomas Zoeller

Neuroendocrine systems as targets for environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Andrea C. Gore

Environmental immune disruption: a comorbidity factor for reproduction?
Sherry E. Rier

Response to knowledge about puberty
Elizabeth A. Guillette

Environmental contaminants and pregnancy outcomes
Gayle Windham and Laura Fenster

Commentary on environmental contaminants and pregnancy outcomes
Sherry G. Selevan

Periconception window: advising the pregnancy-planning couple
Germaine M.B. Louis, Maureen A. Cooney, Courtney D. Lynch and Alexis Handal