Polluted Pathways: Mechanisms of Metabolic Disruption by Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Environmental toxicants are increasingly implicated in the global decline in metabolic health. Focusing on diabetes, herein, the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which metabolism disrupting chemicals (MDCs) impair energy homeostasis are discussed.

Recent findings

Emerging data implicate MDC perturbations in a variety of pathways as contributors to metabolic disease pathogenesis, with effects in diverse tissues regulating fuel utilization. Potentiation of traditional metabolic risk factors, such as caloric excess, and emerging threats to metabolism, such as disruptions in circadian rhythms, are important areas of current and future MDC research. Increasing evidence also implicates deleterious effects of MDCs on metabolic programming that occur during vul

SUBMITTER: Mimoto MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5921937 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature