ABSTRACT
Endocrine disruption is one of the most pressing environmental issues facing environmental toxicology. It is generally perceived that exposure to certain anthropogenic chemicals that can interact with and disrupt the endocrine system may cause some form of malfunction and ultimately pose serious health problems in humans, wildlife, ¤sheries, or their progenies (Pickering and Sumpter 2003; Fossi 2001). Chemicals that can induce endocrine disruption are called endocrine disrupters (EDs) or endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
