connection between neurodevelopmental damage in fetuses and mothers' exposure to dioxin-like

["Susan K. Snow" <sksnow@1stnet.com>]

MR CARROLL D JOHNSTON wrote:
[snip]

> Also, I have not yet received a response to my earlier request for
> citations of research articles that describe the connection between
> neurodevelopmental damage in fetuses and the mothers’ exposure to
> dioxin-like compounds.  If anyone can give me such citations, I still
> need them.  Thanks.
> 
> Carroll Johnston
> Physicians for Social Responsibility

In Chapter 10 entitled Altered Destinies of OUR STOLEN FUTURE (Drs. Theo
Colborn and John Peterson Myers; co-authored by Dianne Dumanoski
[Dutton/NY/1996]), page 187, paragraph 2 begins: 'It has long been
recognized that acute thyroid deficiency during pregnancy can cause
profound mental retardation, but thyroid researcher Susan Porterfield, an
endocrinologist at the Medical College of Georgia, notes that few have
considered the more subtle effects of less severe thyroid disruption
during the development of the brain and nervous sytem--disruption that
can occur naturally or be the result of hormone-disrupting chemicals in
the environment..'

S. Porterfield, "Vulnerability of the Developing Brain to Thyroid 
Abnormalities: Environmental Insults to the Thyroid System," Environmental 
Health Perspectives 102(2):125-30 (1994); S. Porterfield and S. Stein, 
"Thyroid Hormones and Neurological Development: Update 1994, "Endocrine 
Review 3 (1): 357-63 (1994); and S. Porterfield and C. Hendrich, "The Role of 
Thyroid Hormones in Prenatal and Neonatal Neurological Development--Current 
Perspectives," Endocrine Reviews 14 (1)94-106 (1993).

Pages 287 and 288 has many more references to the chapter within OUR STOLEN 
FUTURE. I suggest that you pick up the book at Barnes & Noble or better 
bookstores everywhere.

Susan K. Snow