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Åke Bergman is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in environmental science. Their research primarily addresses concerns related to toxic organic pollutants and the impacts of chemical exposures on health and the environment.

The scientist's main field of study is environmental science, with a significant focus on subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, pollution, and global and planetary change.

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Åke Bergman has contributed to several recent publications in well-known scientific venues. Notable papers include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs, 2020, Environment International
  • From cohorts to molecules: Adverse impacts of endocrine disrupting mixtures, 2022, Science
  • Emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in human milk from Sweden and China, 2020, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Severe dioxin-like compound (DLC) contamination in e-waste recycling areas: An under-recognized threat to local health, 2020, Environment International
  • Chlorinated Paraffins in Human Milk from Urban Sites in China, Sweden, and Norway, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent coauthors associated with Åke Bergman include:

  • Robert Barouki
  • Manolis Kogevinas
  • Andy Haines
  • Riikka Paloniemi
  • Annette Peters

The scientist often publishes in journals such as:

  • Environment International
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • An overview of commercially used brominated flame retardants, their applications, their use patterns in different countries/regions and possible modes of release.

    Mehran Alaee;Pedro Arias;Andreas Sjödin;Åke Bergman

  • State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - 2012

    Åke Bergman;Jerrold Heindel;Susan Jobling;Karen Kidd

  • State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012. Summary for Decision-Makers

    Georg Becher;Åke Bergman;Poul Bjerregaard;Riana Bornman

  • Interactions of Persistent Environmental Organohalogens With the Thyroid Hormone System: Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Animal and Human Health:

    A. Brouwer;D.C. Morse;M.C. Lans;A.G. Schuur

  • Flame retardants in indoor air at an electronics recycling plant and at other work environments.

    Andreas Sjödin;Hakan Carlsson;K. A. J. Thuresson;Sverker Sjölin

  • Human prenatal and postnatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorobiphenylols, and pentachlorophenol.

    Daiva Meironyté Guvenius;Anette Aronsson;Gunvor Ekman-Ordeberg;Ake Bergman

  • A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals

    Åke Bergman;Andreas Rydén;Robin J Law;Jacob de Boer

  • Potent inhibition of estrogen sulfotransferase by hydroxylated PCB metabolites: a novel pathway explaining the estrogenic activity of PCBs

    Monique Kester;S. Bulduk;Dick Tibboel;W. Meinl

  • Selective retention of hydroxylated PCB metabolites in blood.

    Ake Bergman;Eva Klasson-Wehler;Hiroaki Kuroki

  • Methyl Sulfone and Hydroxylated Metabolites of Polychlorinated Biphenyls

    Robert J. Letcher;Eva Klasson-Wehler;Ake Bergman

  • Flame retardant exposure: polybrominated diphenyl ethers in blood from Swedish workers.

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  • Bioaccumulation of 4-nonylphenol in marine animals--a re-evaluation.

    R. Ekelund;Å. Bergman;Å. Granmo;M. Berggren

  • Photochemical Decomposition of 15 Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Congeners in Methanol/Water

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  • Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and tetrabromobisphenol A among computer technicians.

    Kristina Jakobsson;Kaj Thuresson;Lars Rylander;Andreas Sjödin

  • Apparent half-lives of hepta- to decabrominated diphenyl ethers in human serum as determined in occupationally exposed workers

    Kaj Thuresson;Peter Höglund;Lars Hagmar;Andreas Sjödin

  • Placental Transfer of a Hydroxylated Polychlorinated Biphenyl and Effects on Fetal and Maternal Thyroid Hormone Homeostasis in the Rat

    Ilonka A. T. M. Meerts;Yvonne Assink;Peter H. Cenijn;Johannes H. J. van den Berg

  • Identification of Hydroxylated and Methoxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Baltic Sea Salmon (Salmo salar) Blood

    Göran Marsh;Maria Athanasiadou;and Åke Bergman;Lillemor Asplund

  • Hydroxylated and methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins in red alga and cyanobacteria living in the Baltic Sea

    Anna Malmvärn;Yngve Zebühr;Lena Kautsky;Åke Bergman

  • Biotransformation of brominated flame retardants into potentially endocrine-disrupting metabolites, with special attention to 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47).

    Timo Hamers;Jorke H. Kamstra;Edwin Sonneveld;Albertinka J. Murk

  • Children show highest levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a California family of four: a case study.

    Douglas Fischer;Kim Hooper;Maria Athanasiadou;Ioannis Athanassiadis

  • Hydroxylation Increases the Neurotoxic Potential of BDE-47 to Affect Exocytosis and Calcium Homeostasis in PC12 Cells

    Milou M.L. Dingemans;Aart de Groot;Regina G.D.M. van Kleef;Åke Bergman

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Hydroxylated and Methoxylated Brominated and Chlorinated Analogues in the Plasma of Fish from the Detroit River

    Karlis Valters;Hongxia Li;Mehran Alaee;‡ Ivy D'Sa

  • The faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environment.

    Philippe Grandjean;Philippe Grandjean;David Bellinger;Åke Bergman;Sylvaine Cordier

Frequent Co-Authors

Abraham Brouwer
Abraham Brouwer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martin van den Berg
Martin van den Berg Utrecht University
Lillemor Asplund
Lillemor Asplund Stockholm University
Anders Bignert
Anders Bignert Swedish Museum of Natural History
Kristina Jakobsson
Kristina Jakobsson University of Gothenburg
Pál Weihe
Pál Weihe University of the Faroe Islands
Philippe Grandjean
Philippe Grandjean University of Southern Denmark
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu Tongji University
Heinrich Hühnerfuss
Heinrich Hühnerfuss Universität Hamburg
Robert J. Letcher
Robert J. Letcher Carleton University

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