xenoestrogenicity

English

Etymology

xenoestrogen +‎ -icity

Noun

xenoestrogenicity (uncountable)

1. The condition of being a xenoestrogen
   • 2015 November 11, “Environmental Polychlorinated Biphenyl Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Interestingly, studies have extracted the fraction containing the mixture of legacy POPs, including the PCBs, and found a correlation between the chemical level of POP biomarkers and the xenoestrogenicity of the serum POP mixture related to the detected level: the xenoestrogenic activity of the Inuit's (high serum PCB levels) and Warsaw study groups (lower PCB levels) elicited high frequency of samples with ER antagonistic and agonistic activity, respectively.