BPA impairs social behavior - transgenerationally

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Have no friends? it might be BPA’s fault.

<http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680005/have-no-friends-it-might-be-bpas-fault>

The chemical compound BPA has been linked to a host of bad health

problems. Now there is a new problem it may be blamed for: Mice exposed

to BPA just aren’t as social as other mice. And the effect lasts for at

least 4 generations, without changing the DNA sequence.

Among potentially toxic chemical compounds, few have been vilified in

the public eye as much as BPA, an estrogen-mimicking compound used in

plastic production that acts as an endocrine disrupter and has been

linked to obesity, neurological changes, and increased risk of cancer.

But forget your health; now it seems that BPA might make you a less fun

person.

The study, published this week in the journal Endocrinology and

conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia and University of

Missouri, put a dose of BPA into maternal mouse plasma--comparable to

concentrations found in the blood of most Americans--and examined the

behavior of their offspring....

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Gestational Exposure to Bisphenol A Produces Transgenerational Changes

in Behaviors and Gene Expression

<http://endo.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/en.2012-1195v1?rss=1>

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