Disrupción endocrina e imposex

Autores/as

  • Óscar Chacón Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Ve
  • Fabrizio Cuevas Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Ve
  • Christian De La Fuente Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Ve
  • Fabián Díaz Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Ve
  • Laura Huaquín Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Ve

Resumen

From the injurious effects generate by the pollutants, Endocrine Disruption (ED) constitute one of the worrying cases, since it affects directly the individuals exposed to the substances that act like disruptors, as indirectly causing effects in the trophic chain, and in the environment in general. Inside them, we will approach in this
review a type of endocrine disruption called Imposex, which affects diverse species of marine gasteropods, with environmental consequences, economic and possible effects in mammals included humans.