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Carlos Sonnenschein

Carlos Sonnenschein

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
31130
World Ranking
3813
National Ranking
1887

Overview

Carlos Sonnenschein is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and environmental science. Their academic focus broadly encompasses health, toxicology, mutagenesis, molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, and reproductive medicine.

Their frequent research topics include the effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, cancer genomics and diagnostics, science, research, and medicine, pluripotent stem cells research, gene regulatory network analysis, cancer cells and metastasis, as well as bioinformatics and genomic networks.

They have collaborated with several researchers over the years, with notable frequent co-authors being Ana M. Soto, Cheryl M. Schaeberle, Frederick S. vom Saal, Linda S. Birnbaum, and Terrence J. Collins.

Sonnenschein has published in various scientific venues, with multiple contributions appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives, PLoS Biology, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Over a century of cancer research: Inconvenient truths and promising leads, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), 2024, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • The cancer puzzle: Welcome to organicism, 2021, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • European Medicines Agency Conflicts With the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on Bisphenol A Regulation, 2023, Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • Information, programme, signal: dead metaphors that negate the agency of organisms, 2020, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

In addition to journal articles, Sonnenschein has authored books, including a publication by the University of Sussex entitled Bifurquer: Il n'y a pas d'alternative released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The E-SCREEN assay as a tool to identify estrogens: an update on estrogenic environmental pollutants.

    Ana M. Soto;Carlos Sonnenschein;Kerrie L. Chung;Mariana F. Fernández

  • Bisphenol-A and the Great Divide: A Review of Controversies in the Field of Endocrine Disruption

    Laura N. Vandenberg;Maricel V. Maffini;Carlos Sonnenschein;Beverly S. Rubin

  • p-Nonyl-phenol: an estrogenic xenobiotic released from "modified" polystyrene.

    Ana M. Soto;Honorato Justicia;Jonathan W. Wray;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Estrogenicity of resin-based composites and sealants used in dentistry.

    Nicolas Olea;Rosa Pulgar;Pilar Perez;Fatima Olea-Serrano

  • An updated review of environmental estrogen and androgen mimics and antagonists.

    Carlos Sonnenschein;Ana M. Soto

  • In vitro molecular mechanisms of bisphenol A action.

    Yelena B. Wetherill;Benson T. Akingbemi;Jun Kanno;John A. McLachlan

  • Chapel Hill bisphenol A expert panel consensus statement: integration of mechanisms, effects in animals and potential to impact human health at current levels of exposure.

    Frederick S. vom Saal;Benson T Akingbemi;Scott M Belcher;Linda S. Birnbaum

  • The pesticides endosulfan, toxaphene, and dieldrin have estrogenic effects on human estrogen-sensitive cells.

    Ana M. Soto;Kerrie L. Chung;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Endocrine disruptors and reproductive health: the case of bisphenol-A.

    Maricel V. Maffini;Beverly S. Rubin;Carlos Sonnenschein;Ana M. Soto

  • Environmental causes of cancer: endocrine disruptors as carcinogens

    Ana M. Soto;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Comparison of short-term estrogenicity tests for identification of hormone-disrupting chemicals.

    Helle Raun Andersen;Anna-Maria Andersson;Steven F. Arnold;Herman Autrup

  • Perinatal Exposure to Bisphenol-A Alters Peripubertal Mammary Gland Development in Mice

    Monica Muñoz-de-Toro;Caroline M. Markey;Perinaaz R. Wadia;Enrique H. Luque

  • In Utero Exposure to Bisphenol A Alters the Development and Tissue Organization of the Mouse Mammary Gland

    Caroline M. Markey;Enrique H. Luque;Monica Munoz de Toro;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • The stroma as a crucial target in rat mammary gland carcinogenesis

    Maricel V. Maffini;Ana M. Soto;Janine M. Calabro;Angelo A. Ucci

  • Prenatal Bisphenol A Exposure Induces Preneoplastic Lesions in the Mammary Gland in Wistar Rats

    Milena Durando;Laura Kass;Julio Piva;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Induction of mammary gland ductal hyperplasias and carcinoma in situ following fetal bisphenol A exposure

    Tessa J. Murray;Maricel V. Maffini;Angelo A. Ucci;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • The tissue organization field theory of cancer: a testable replacement for the somatic mutation theory.

    Ana M. Soto;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Androgenic and estrogenic activity in water bodies receiving cattle feedlot effluent in Eastern Nebraska, USA.

    Ana M Soto;Janine M Calabro;Nancy V Prechtl;Alice Y Yau

  • The somatic mutation theory of cancer: growing problems with the paradigm?

    Ana M. Soto;Carlos Sonnenschein

  • Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend on Good Laboratory Practices as a Criterion for Selecting Data: The Case of Bisphenol A

    John Peterson Myers;Frederick S. vom Saal;Benson T Akingbemi;Koji Arizono

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana M. Soto
Ana M. Soto Tufts University
John A. McLachlan
John A. McLachlan Tulane University
Frederick S. vom Saal
Frederick S. vom Saal University of Missouri
Angel Nadal
Angel Nadal Miguel Hernandez University
Louis J. Guillette
Louis J. Guillette Medical University of South Carolina
Susan Jobling
Susan Jobling Brunel University London
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan Tufts University
Taisen Iguchi
Taisen Iguchi National Institute for Basic Biology
David Crews
David Crews The University of Texas at Austin
Denis Noble
Denis Noble University of Oxford

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