Research Topics
| F MassartSummaryAffiliation: University of Pisa Country: Italy Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Human breast milk and xenoestrogen exposure: a possible impact on human healthFrancesco Massart
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Italy
J Perinatol 25:282-8. 2005..Here, we review available data from breast milk monitoring studies suggesting the environmental chemicals that may affect child health through breastfeeding...- High incidence of central precocious puberty in a bounded geographic area of northwest Tuscany: an estrogen disrupter epidemic?Francesco Massart
Pediatric Clinic, S Chiara University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Gynecol Endocrinol 20:92-8. 2005..05). Owing to the definite geographic distribution of CPP and because increasing distance (km) from Pietrasanta rarefied CPP frequency, we suggest environmental factors (e.g. estrogen disrupter pollution) as major CPP determinants in NWT... - Child thyroid disruption by environmental chemicalsF Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Minerva Pediatr 58:47-53. 2006..The aim of this paper is to discuss how environmental chemicals can interfere with the normal production, metabolism, and excretion of thyroid hormones, and their known impact on the thyroid system during child development... - How do environmental estrogen disruptors induce precocious puberty?F Massart
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Minerva Pediatr 58:247-54. 2006..We review data on adverse health and reproductive outcomes have been attributed to estrogen disruptors in laboratory animals and in wildlife as well as in humans, specially focusing on the puberty timing... 
Age-specific effects of estrogen receptors' polymorphisms on the bone traits in healthy fertile women: the BONTURNO studyFrancesco Massart
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Reprod Biol Endocrinol 7:32. 2009..Common variants in the genes encoding for estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and beta (ESR2) are proposed as candidates for influencing bone phenotypes at the population level...- Circulating endothelial progenitor cells and large artery structure and function in young subjects with uncomplicated type 1 diabetesCarlo Palombo
Department of Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, Pisa, 56 124, Italy
Cardiovasc Diabetol 10:88. 2011.... 
Morphogenetic targets and genetics of undescended testisFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, Department of Procreative Medicine and Development Age, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Sex Dev 4:326-35. 2010..On the other hand, common polymorphisms in these genes have recently been investigated as contributing risk factors for idiopathic isolated (nonsyndromic) cryptorchidism...- Oestrogenic mycotoxin exposures and precocious pubertal developmentF Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Int J Androl 33:369-76. 2010..In this view, oestrogenic mycotoxins are suspected as triggering factor for precocious pubertal development at least in prepubertal exposed girls... - Growth outcome during GnRH agonist treatments for slowly progressive central precocious pubertyFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Neuroendocrinology 90:307-14. 2009..In some patients, however, GnRHa induce an inappropriate growth deceleration impairing Ht outcome. Furthermore, slowly progressive CPP (spCPP) forms were reported which do not need GnRHa treatment... - Sex steroidal targets & genetic susceptibility to idiopathic cryptorchidismFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Italy
Pediatr Endocrinol Rev 6:481-90. 2009.... - High growth rate of girls with precocious puberty exposed to estrogenic mycotoxinsFrancesco Massart
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
J Pediatr 152:690-5, 695.e1. 2008..To test the hypothesis that human puberty timing can be advanced by environmental estrogen exposure... - Environmental thyroid toxicants and child endocrine healthFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56125 Pisa, Italy
Pediatr Endocrinol Rev 5:500-9. 2007..More studies are crucial to fill in the research gaps regarding permanent endocrine and neurological outcome in next generations exposed to background thyroid toxicants... - Thyroid outcome during long-term gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist treatments for idiopathic precocious pubertyFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
J Adolesc Health 40:252-7. 2007..To examine the effects of long-term gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) administration on thyroid function in children affected by central precocious puberty (CPP)... - Prolactin secretion before, during, and after chronic gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist treatments in childrenFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Fertil Steril 84:719-24. 2005..To examine the effect of long-term administration of GnRH agonists (GnRHa) on PRL secretion in children affected by central precocious puberty (CPP) and growth hormone deficiency (GHD)... - No evidence of chromosome damage in children and adolescents with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after receiving 131I radiometabolic therapy, as evaluated by micronucleus assay and microarray analysisGiovanni Federico
Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Ospedali Riuniti S Chiara, Via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 35:2113-21. 2008.... - Hemorrhagic corpus luteum cysts: an unusual problem for pediatric surgeonsC Spinelli
Department of Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, Pisa 56126, Italy
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 22:163-7. 2009..HCLCs especially develop in the early period after menarche, and they are commonly associated with dysfunctional ovulation... - Mycotoxin detection in infant formula milks in ItalyV Meucci
Department of Veterinary Clinics, University of Pisa, I 56125 Pisa, Italy
Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess 27:64-71. 2010..The results point out the need to perform controls for prevention programmes especially when attempting to identify risk markers of the infant feed quality... - Allelic genes involved in artery compliance and susceptibility to sporadic abdominal aortic aneurysmFrancesco Massart
Pediatric Endocrine Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56125 Pisa, Italy
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 92:413-8. 2004..However, because possessing at least an ERbetaAluI restriction site was statistically associated to AAA onset (chi(2) = 5.220; OR = 1.82, P < 0.05), ERbeta polymorphism was proposed as genetic determinant in the AAA susceptibility... - Human races and pharmacogenomics of effective bone treatmentsF Massart
Pediatric Division, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Child Development, University of Pisa, Italy
Gynecol Endocrinol 20:36-44. 2005..Future studies and preventive strategies for the management of osteoporosis need to take into account these racial and genetic factors... - Analysis of estrogen receptor (ERalpha and ERbeta) and progesterone receptor (PR) polymorphisms in uterine leiomyomasFrancesco Massart
Scuola Superiore S Anna, Pisa, Italy
Med Sci Monit 9:BR25-30. 2003....