Saburo Matsui* and Tomonari Matsuda*

* Research Center for Environmental Quality Control,Kyoto University

+ Correspondence should be addressed to Saburo Matsui:
(1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811 Japan)

Abstract

Although the matter of "Endocrine Disrupter (Environmental Hormone) " is becoming a big problem, many things remain unclear. In this review, the impacts of environmental hormones on animals and human beings, the structure and the mechanisms of action of each hormone, and the structure and pollution sources of major estrogen mimics are discussed.

Key words: endocrine disrupter, environmental hormone, estrogen mimic