What are the effects of prenatal DES exposure on articular cartilage, bone integrity, skeletal tissue and skeleton development ?
Source studies in ref to osseous changes in the DES-exposed, including the “tall girls’experiment.”
- 2012 Developmental exposure to xenoestrogens at low doses alters femur length and tensile strength in adult mice.
- 2012 Effect of in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol on lumbar and femoral bone, articular cartilage, and the intervertebral disc in male and female adult mice progeny with and without swimming exercise.
- 2011 Height as an infliction.
- 2011 Looking back in time: conducting a cohort study of the long-term effects of treatment of adolescent tall girls with synthetic hormones.
- 2011 Sex Steroid Treatment of Constitutionally Tall Stature.
- 2010 Too tall, too small? The temptation to tinker with a child’s height.
- 2009 A ‘too tall‘ tale: girls and the drug DES.
- 2009 Book : Normal at Any Cost – Tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry’s quest to manipulate height.
- 2008 Diethylstilbesterol has gender-specific effects on weight gain and bone development in mice.
- 2006 Tall Girls : The Social Shaping of a Medical Therapy.
- 2005 Using hormone treatment to reduce the adult height of tall girls: are women satisfied with the decision in later years?
- 2004 Endocrine disruption in adolescence: immunologic, hematologic, and bone effects in monkeys.
- 2003 Estrogenic endocrine disruptive components interfere with calcium handling and differentiation of human trophoblast cells.
- 1999 Diethylstilbestrol given to see if it could stop girls from growing unsociably tall.
- 1998 Synthetic hormone DES given to healthy teenage girls to manipulate height.
- 1997 Hormone treatment DES tested on healthy young girls to manipulate height.
- 1996 Effect of neonatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol and tamoxifen on pelvis and femur in male mice.
- 1995 Alterations in estrogen levels during development affects the skeleton: use of an animal model.
- 1995 Alterations of maternal estrogen levels during gestation affect the skeleton of female offspring.
- 1992 Developmental exposure to estrogens induces persistent changes in skeletal tissue.
- 1990 Estrogen inhibition of periosteal bone formation in rat long bones: down-regulation of gene expression for bone matrix proteins.
- 1986 Pharmacology of estrogens and estrogen-induced effects on nonreproductive organs and systems.
- 1981 Osseous changes and osteosacomas in mice continuously fed diets containing diethylstilbestrol or 17 beta-estradiol.
- 1978 Estrogen Use in Children and Adolescents: A Survey.
- 1976 Calcium balance in the quail : Influence of sex and diethylstilbestrol.
- 1976 Tall Girl Therapy.
- 1975 A comparison of the effects of the calcitonins, steroid hormones and thyroid hormones on the response of bone to parathyroid hormone in tissue culture.
- 1975 Tall girls: a survey of 15 years of management and treatment.
- 1975 The effect of diethylstilbestrol on the rate of osseous repair, bone integrity, and plasma calcium in the adult avian.
- 1973 Estrogen treatment of tall girls.
- 1971 Studies in permeability of articular cartilage in New Zealand albino rabbits. The effect of aging, papain, and certain steroid hormones.
- 1958 Suppression of growth in excessively tall girls.
For different topics, please see Diethylstilbestrol DES Studies.