Endocrine Abstracts

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are exogenous compounds that affect the endocrine system, disrupt the hormonal balance and consequently cause the adverse health effects in humans. These compounds persist and accumulate in the environment and can easily gain entry to the food chain. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) and its heterodimeric partner retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRα) are very often targets of EDCs. PPARγ play crucial role i...

Vitamin D receptor (VDR) signalling can be affected with a variety of compounds, both endo- or exogenous. However, any disruption of VDR transcriptional activity can exert severe physiological or pathophysiological outcomes. It is therefore of a great importance to have a reliable in vitro screening technique that would provide a tool for efficient identification of agonists and activators of human VDR. In the current work, we described two novel human reporter cell l...