Risk Analysis
of Endocrine Disrupters
and other food residues and contaminants |
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| RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS |
| 1 |
Alberto Mantovani |
| 2 |
Francesca Maranghi |
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Caterina Macrì |
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Francesca Baldi |
| 5 |
Chiara Frazzoli |
| 6 |
Gabriele Moracci |
| 7 |
Sabrina Tait |
| 8 |
Roberta Tassinari |
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| AFFILIATION |
| 1 | Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) - Dept. Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health |
| 2 | Italian Society of Reproductive Toxicology (SITOR) |
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| RESEARCH TOPICS |
| 1 |
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity |
| 2 |
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals |
| 3 |
Risk Assessment |
| 4 |
Food safety |
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| ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES |
| 1 |
Italian Health Ministry (reproductive toxicity
of pesticides and other chemicals) |
| 2 |
EU/ECVAM (reproductive toxicity of chemicals,
identification and evaluation of endocrine disrupters) |
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EFSA (Panel on additives and products or substances
used in animal feed) |
| 4 |
OECD (Working Group on Endocrine Disrupters
Testing and Assessment) |
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| EDUCATION IN TOXICOLOGY |
| 1 | Organization of courses and workshops for researchers and operators of the Italian Public Health System at the ISS |
| 2 | Organization of workshops on reproductive and developmental toxicology within SITOR activities |
| 3 | Organization of the Spring School on Risk Assessment (Orvieto, 3-10 April 2005) within the Network of Excellence CASCADE (http://www.cascadenet.org) |
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| SERVICES |
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Italian website on Endocrine Disrupters http://progetti.iss.it/inte/ |
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Contribution to SITOR website http://www.unich.it/sitor/ |
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| COLLABORATIONS |
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Dept of Environment and Primary Prevention,
ISS (E. Testai) |
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Dept. of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, ISS
(G. Calamandrei, A.Olivieri, D. Taruscio) |
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University of Rome “La Sapienza” (I. Figà-Talamanca,
M. Moscarini, D. Caserta) |
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University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (M. De Felici) |
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ENEA –Casaccia, Sect Toxicology and Biomedical
Sciences (F. Pacchierotti, M. Spanò) |
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Environmental Protection Agency – Region Emilia-Romagna
(A.M. Colacci) |
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Veterinary School, University of Bologna (A.
Zaccaroni) |
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Italian Institute for Research on Food and
Nutrition (C.Leclerccq, S.Lorenzetti, E.Mengheri)) |
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Network of Excellence (6th Framework Programme)
“CASCADE” |
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Integrated Project (6th Framework Programme)
“ReProTect” (co-ordination ECVAM – Ispra, Italy) |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| 1 |
Maranghi F., Macrì C., Ricciardi C.,
Stazi A.V., Rescia M., Mantovani A. (2003) Histological and histomorphometric
alterations in thyroid and adrenals of cd rat pups exposed in
utero to methyl thiofanate Reproductive Toxicology 17:
617-23. |
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Traina M.E., Rescia M., Urbani E., Mantovani
A., Macrì C., Ricciardi C., Stazi A.V., Fazzi P., Cordelli
E., Eleuteri P., Leter G., Spanò M. (2003) Long-lasting effects
of lindane on mouse spermatogenesis induced by in utero exposure.
Reprod. Toxicol. 17: 25-35. |
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Taruscio D, Mantovani A (2004). Factors
regulating endogeneous retroviral sequences in human and mouse Cytogenetic
and Genome Research 105: 351-62. |
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Silvestroni L, Mantovani A, Palleschi S. (2004)
Partial head decondensation (PHD) test. A new, quick method to assess
the acrosome status in human spermatozoa. Fertil Steril
81: 1007-12. |
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Mantovani A., Maranghi F. (2005) Risk Assessment
of chemicals potentially affecting male fertility. Contraception
72:308-313. |
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Bremer S, Cortvrindt R, Daston G, Eletti B,
Mantovani A, Maranghi F, Pelkonen O, Ruhdel I, Spielmann H. (2005)
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity. ATLA, 33 (Suppl.
1):183-209. |
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Maranghi F. Macrì C., Mantovani A., Eleuteri
P., Leter G., Rescia M., Spanò M., Saso L. (2005) Long-term
effects of lonidamine in mouse testis. Contraception 72: 268-72. |
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