Michael Skinner and members of his lab say dioxin administered to pregnant rats resulted in a variety of reproductive problems and disease in subsequent generations. The first generation of rats had prostate disease, polycystic ovarian disease and fewer ovarian follicles, the structures that contain eggs. To the surprise of Skinner and his colleagues, the third generation had even more dramatic incidences of ovarian disease and, in males, kidney disease.
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dioxin-disease-reproductive-problems.html#jCp
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dioxin-disease-reproductive-problems.html#jCp
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