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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and cancer: Detection methodologies, epidemiological insights, potential carcinogenic mechanisms, and future perspectives

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Metabolic and Microbial Profiling of Soil Microbial Community under Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Stress

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Neurotoxic effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mixture exposure in mice: Accumulations in brain and associated changes of behaviors, metabolome, and transcriptome

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Plasma concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are associated with perturbations in lipid and amino acid metabolism

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Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances and cardiometabolic diseases: A review

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Simplifying Nontargeted Analysis of PFAS in Complex Food Matrixes

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Exploring the Chemical Space of the Exposome: How Far Have We Gone?

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Suspect, Nontarget Screening, and Toxicity Prediction of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Landfill Leachate

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Prenatal PFAS exposure, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and neurobehavioral development in childhood

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Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances as forever chemicals in drinking water: Unraveling the nexus with obesity and endocrine disruption – A mini review

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Host–Gut Microbiome Metabolic Interactions in PFAS-Impacted Freshwater Turtles (Emydura macquarii macquarii)

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Metabolome-wide association study of four groups of persistent organic pollutants and abnormal blood lipids

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Perturbation of the gut microbiome in wild-caught freshwater turtles (Emydura macquarii macquarii) exposed to elevated PFAS levels

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Unveiling Distribution of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Matched Placenta-Serum Tetrads: Novel Implications for Birth Outcome Mediated by Placental Vascular Disruption

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The potential mediating role of the gut microbiome and metabolites in the association between PFAS and kidney function in young adults: A proof-of-concept study

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Domestic Dogs and Horses as Sentinels of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Exposure and Associated Health Biomarkers in Gray’s Creek North Carolina

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Bioaccumulation and metabolic impact of environmental PFAS residue on wild-caught urban wetland tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus)

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Overall and individual associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and liver function indices and the metabolic mechanism

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Kynurenic Acid Plays a Protective Role in Hepatotoxicity Induced by HFPO-DA in Male Mice

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Serum metabolome associated with novel and legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances exposure and thyroid cancer risk: A multi-module integrated analysis based on machine learning

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Dose additive maternal and offspring effects of oral maternal exposure to a mixture of three PFAS (HFPO-DA, NBP2, PFOS) during pregnancy in the Sprague-Dawley rat

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In utero exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances and the human fetal liver metabolome in Scotland: a cross-sectional study

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Integrating -omics approaches into population-based studies of endocrine disrupting chemicals: A scoping review

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Effects of Perfluorooctanoic Acid on Gut Microbiota and Microbial Metabolites in C57BL/6J Mice

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and sleep health in U.S. adults, NHANES 2005–2014

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A metabolomic investigation of serum perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoate

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PFAS and their association with the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women

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Hunting Metabolic Biomarkers for Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Review

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Characterization of Potential Adverse Outcome Pathways Related to Metabolic Outcomes and Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Using Artificial Intelligence

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Comparative Toxicological Effects of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate and Its Alternative 6:2 Chlorinated Polyfluorinated Ether Sulfonate on Earthworms

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Cord plasma metabolomic signatures of prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposures in the Boston Birth Cohort

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The association between prenatal per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance levels and Kawasaki disease among children of up to 4 years of age: A prospective birth cohort of the Japan Environment and Children’s study

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Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accelerate biological aging mediated by increased C-reactive protein

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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and sex-specific associations with offspring adiposity at 10 years of age: Metabolic perturbation plays a role

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Developmental programming: Preconceptional and gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner

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Prenatal exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals: The role of multi-omics in understanding toxicity

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Novel and Legacy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Humans: Long-Term Temporal Variability and Metabolic Perturbations

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Contaminations from Lithium-Ion Battery Fires—Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Soot

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Deciphering the toxicological mechanisms of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in musculoskeletal disorders via integrated network toxicology and molecular docking

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Analytical challenges and opportunities in the study of endocrine disrupting chemicals within an exposomics framework

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Cross-Sectional Associations between Prenatal Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances and Bioactive Lipids in Three Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohorts

Suthar, H., Manea, T., Pak, D., Woodbury, M., Eick, S. M., Cathey, A. L., Watkins, D. J., Strakovsky, R. S., Ryva, B. A., Pennathur, S., et al. (2024) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c00094 · Cited by 15

Forever chemicals don't make hero mutant ninja turtles: Elevated PFAS levels linked to unusual scute development in newly emerged freshwater turtle hatchlings (Emydura macquarii macquarii) and a reduction in turtle populations

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Association between novel per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and premature ovarian insufficiency: a case–control study

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Metabolic changes associated with PFAS exposure in firefighters: A pilot study

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Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Healthcare: Environmental and Clinical Insights

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Celecoxib as a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma in populations exposed to high PFAS levels

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Microbial and molecular approaches for PFAS transformation in soils: prospects and limitations

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Neonatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure in relation to retinoblastoma

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Persistent pollutant exposure impacts metabolomic profiles in polar bears and ringed seals from the High Arctic and Hudson Bay, Canada

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Exposure to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in association to later occurrence of type 2 diabetes and metabolic pathway dysregulation in a multiethnic US population

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Interactions of Potential Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals with Whole Human Proteome Predicted by AlphaFold2 Using an In Silico Approach

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The Alarming Effects of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on One Health and Interconnections with Food-Producing Animals in Circular and Sustainable Agri-Food Systems

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Early pregnancy serum PFAS are associated with alterations in the maternal lipidome

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Leading Techniques for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) Remediating in Water and Wastewater

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In utero exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and early childhood BMI trajectories: A mediation analysis with neonatal metabolic profiles

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Integration of transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data to identify lncRNA rPvt1 associations in lipopolysaccharide-treated H9C2 cardiomyocytes

Zhang, T., Wen, R., Yang, Y., Yang, N., & Liu, C. (2023) · Frontiers in Genetics · doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1278830 · Cited by 9

Role of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the cardiorenal system: Unraveling crosstalk from the network of pollutants and phenotypes

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Applying newly suggested simultaneous analysis of metabolomics and lipidomics into perfluorooctanesulfonate-derived neurotoxicity mechanism in zebrafish embryos

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure in biota and remediation strategies: Toxicological and biochemical perspectives

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Assessment of PFDA toxicity on RTgill-W1 cell line via metabolomics and lipidomics approaches

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Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and maternal thyroid homeostasis: Nonlinear, compound-specific, and mixture effects

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