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This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the 14th century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Estrogenic substances was marketed under a variety of different brand names including Amniotin , Equine Estrogenic Substances (Ayerst), Estrogenic Hormones (Upjohn, others), Estrogenic Substances (Reed & Carnrick, Sharp & Dohme, others), Estrolin (Lakeside), Estromone, Estronat (National Drug), Folestrin , Follacro (Schieffelin), Menformon ...
There is concern that steroid hormones may act as endocrine disruptors. Some research suggests that concentrations of ethinylestradiol, an estrogen used in oral contraceptive medications and one of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals, can cause endocrine disruption in aquatic and amphibian wildlife in concentrations as low as 1 ng/L. [30]
A nonsteroidal estrogen is an estrogen with a nonsteroidal chemical structure. [1] The most well-known example is the stilbestrol estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES). [1] [2] Although nonsteroidal estrogens formerly had an important place in medicine, they have gradually fallen out of favor following the discovery of toxicities associated with high-dose DES starting in the early 1970s, and are ...
The name given to these exogenous (coming from an external source) hormones is endocrine disruptors, due to their tendency to mimic the behaviors of naturally produced bodily hormones. [15] Endocrine disruptors have also been found to affect the levels and behaviors of a number of other bodily hormones.
The impact of endocrine disruptors lies in the name: They disrupt the endocrine system, which “maintains our general physiology,” Birnbaum tells Fortune. That disruption impacts: That ...
Fragrances used in aromatherapy are not approved as prescription drugs in the United States. [3] Although there is insufficient medical evidence that aromatherapy can prevent, treat or cure any disease, [1] [2] [4] aromatherapy is used by some people with diseases, such as cancer, to provide general well-being and relief from pain, nausea or ...
Any chemical substance with biological activity may be considered a drug. This list categorises drugs alphabetically and also by other categorisations. This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once.