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IJERPH 2014 : Special issue on Endocrine Disruptors and Human Health | |||||||||||
Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/endocrine_disruptors | |||||||||||
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Dear Colleague,
The following Special Issue will be published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - IJERPH (ISSN 1660-4601, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/), and is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication: Special Issue: Endocrine Disruptors and Human Health Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/ijerph/endocrine_disruptors Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Karen Phillips Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2014 Dear Colleagues, Exposure to endocrine disruptors or endocrine toxicants has been associated with a range of adverse health effects in laboratory animals and wildlife. "Endocrine disruption" refers to negative interference with the endocrine system leading to extra-homeostatic fluctuations in hormone levels that may, in turn, trigger adverse health outcomes. In humans potential adverse health effects include infertility, abnormal prenatal and childhood development, reproductive cancers along with emerging health concerns (e.g. obesity, diabetes, metabolism disorders, abnormal neurodevelopment). This special issue will focus on proposed molecular mechanisms by which endocrine disruptors adversely affect human health. Drawing from experimental, epidemiological and other data, articles which explore gene- environment interactions, epigenetics, molecular signalling and receptor-ligand interactions are particularly welcome. Similarly, articles describing biologically plausible mechanisms by which endocrine disruptors may contribute to emerging adverse human health effects are also encouraged. Dr. Karen P. Phillips Guest Editor This Special Issue will be fully open access. We encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract to the Editorial Office (ijerph@mdpi.com) for approval. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 May 2014 Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at: http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/ Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/instructions/ Article Processing Charges are 1400 CHF per accepted paper. For details see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/ The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601) is an online, open access journal in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. IJERPH is covered by leading indexing services, including PubMed (Medline) and the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). Full-text articles are also available through PubMed Central. The most recent Impact Factor for the year 2011 is 1.605. MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at http://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer- review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have increased their impact factors, see "2011 Newly Released Impact Factors", http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/. In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at: ijerph@mdpi.com We look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Fabienne Fischer On behalf of the Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Karen Phillips Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences University of Ottawa 43 Templeton Street Room 215 Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada Website: http://www.health.uottawa.ca/healthsciences/staff/kphillips.htm E-Mail: karen.phillips@uottawa.ca |
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