Recent representative publications:

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Zoeller RT (2007) Environmental chemicals impacting the thyroid: targets and consequences.
Thyroid. 17(9):811-7.

Zoeller RT (2006) Endocrine disruptors: do family lines carry an epigenetic record of previous
generations' exposures? Endocrinology. 2006 147(12):5513-4.

You SH, Gauger KJ, Bansal R, Zoeller RT (2006) 4-Hydroxy-PCB106 acts as a direct thyroid hormone receptor agonist in rat GH3 cells. Mol Cell Endocrinol 257-258:26-34.

Zoeller RT, Crofton KM (2005) Mode of action: developmental thyroid hormone insufficiency--neurological abnormalities resulting from exposure to propylthiouracil. Crit Rev Toxicol. 35(8-9):771-81.

Crofton KM, Zoeller RT (2005) Mode of action: neurotoxicity induced by thyroid hormone disruption during development--hearing loss resulting from exposure to PHAHs. Crit Rev Toxicol. 35(8-9):757-69.

Zoeller RT (2005) Environmental chemicals as thyroid hormone analogues: new studies indicate that thyroid hormone receptors are targets of industrial chemicals? Mol Cell Endocrinol. 242(1-2):10-5.

Zoeller RT, Bansal R, Parris C (2005) Bisphenol-A, an environmental contaminant that acts as a thyroid hormone receptor antagonist in vitro, increases serum thyroxine, and alters RC3/neurogranin expression in the developing rat brain. Endocrinology. 146(2):607-12.

Zoeller RT, Rovet J (2004) Timing of thyroid hormone action in the developing brain: clinical observations and experimental findings. J Neuroendocrinol. 16(10):809-18.

Zoeller RT, Bigelow C, Rovet J (2004) Lack of a relation between human neonatal thyroxine and pediatric neurobehavioral disorders: neonatal total thyroxine is not a good proxy measure of maternal thyroid hormone insufficiency. Thyroid. Mar;14(3):239-41; author reply 241-3.

Zoeller RT (2004) Editorial: Local control of the timing of thyroid hormone action in the
developing human brain. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 89(7):3114-6.

Gauger KJ, Kato Y, Haraguchi K, Lehmler HJ, Robertson LW, Bansal R, Zoeller
RT (2004) Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exert thyroid hormone-like effects in the fetal
rat brain but do not bind to thyroid hormone receptors. Environ Health Perspect. 112(5):516-23.

Heindel JJ, Zoeller RT (2003) Thyroid hormone and brain development: translating molecular mechanisms to population risk. Thyroid. Nov;13(11):1001-4.

Zoeller RT (2003) Transplacental thyroxine and fetal brain development. J Clin Invest. 111(7):954-7.

Zoeller RT (2003) Thyroid toxicology and brain development: should we think differently?
Environ Health Perspect. 111(12):A628.

Yang J and Zoeller RT (2002) Differential Display Identifies Neuroendocrine-Specific Protein-A (NSP-A) and Interferon-Inducible Protein 10 (IP-10) as Ethanol-Responsive Genes in the Fetal Rat Brain. Developmental Brain Research 138: 117-133.

Sanchez E, Uribe RM, Corkidi G, Zoeller RT, Cisneros M, Zacarias M, Morales-Chapa C, Charli J.-L., and Joseph-Bravo P. (2001) Differential Responses of TRH Neurons to Cold Exposure or Suckling Indicate Functional Heterogeneity of the TRH System in the paraventricular nucleus of rat hypothalamus. Neuroendocrinology 74: 407-422.

Iannacone EI, Yan AW, Amy L.S. Dowling, and Zoeller RT (2001) Thyroid hormone exerts site-specific effects on SRC-1 and NcoR expression selectively in the neonatal rat brain. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 186 (1): 49-59.

Yen G, Croci A, Dowling A, Zhang S, Zoeller RT and Darling DS (2001) Developmental and functional evidence of a role for Zfhep in neural cell development. Molecular Brain Research 96(1-2): 59-67.

Myers JP, Krimsky S, and Zoeller RT (2000). Endocrine Disruptors: A Controversy in Science and Policy. Session III Summary and Research Needs. NeuroToxicology 21:1-2.

Dowling ALS, Iannacone EI, and Zoeller RT (2000) Maternal Hypothyroidism Selectively Affects the Expression of Neuroendocrine-Specific Protein-A Messenger Ribonucleic Acid in the Proliferative Zone of the Fetal Rat Brain Cortex. Endocrinology 142(1):390-399.

Dowling ALS and Zoeller RT (2000) Thyroid Hormone of Maternal Origin Regulates The Expression Of RC3/Neurogranin mRNA In The Fetal Rat Brain. Molecular Brain Research 82: 126-132.

Zoeller RT and Crofton KM. (2000) Thyroid Hormone Action in Fetal Brain Development and Potential for Disruption by Environmental Chemicals. NeuroToxicology 21(6): 935-946.

Slikker W and Zoeller RT (2000) Hot new topics in developmental neurotoxicology – novel and changing perspectives: Session X summary and research needs. Neurotoxicology 21: 279-280.

Zoeller RT, Dowling ALS, Vas AA (2000) Developmental Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Exerts Thyroid Hormone-Like Effects on the Expression of RC3/Neurogranin and Myelin Basic Protein mRNAs in the Developing Rat Brain. Endocrinology 141: 181-189.

Dowling ALS, Martz GU, Leonard JL, Zoeller RT (2000) Acute Changes in Maternal Thyroid Hormone Induce Rapid and Transient Changes in Specific Gene Expression in Fetal Rat Brain. Journal of Neuroscience 20(6): 2255-2265.

Bigsby R, Chapin RE, Daston GP, Davis BJ, Gorski, J, Gray LE, Howdeshell KL, vom Saal, FS, and Zoeller RT (1999) Evaluating the Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Endocrine Function during Development. Environmental Health Perspectives 107 (Suppl 4): 613-618.

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