Endocrine Abstracts

Atrazine (ATR) is a widely used herbicide, with known effects as an endocrine disrupting chemical. Several studies have implicated ATR in causing disorders of sex development in reptiles, and chronic exposure can cause an increase incidence of intersex in fish, suggesting that the hypothalamo-pituitary–gonadal axis is a major site of ATR action. In this study, we investigated whether acute exposure (hours to days) to ATR could cause abnormalities in the development of Zeb...