The 145th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Fukuoka)

Organizer: Kazuma Higashisaka (IACS, Osaka Univ.), Tomoki Kimura (Fac. of Pharm. Sci., Setsunan Univ.)

To detect and prevent health risks for children, it is important to improve development and the environment during the fetal and infant stages and to prevent the onset of diseases. In this regard, there are many types of chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides, in the environment in which we live, and there are concerns that they may cause various health effects on our health. Therefore, it is expected that clarifying the relationship between the effects on maternal and child health and exposure to environmental chemicals will lead to understanding the molecular pathology related to the health effects on the next generation, and to controlling and predicting them. This symposium will focus on the following research topics: (1) epidemiological evidence for relationships between environmental chemicals exposure and children health, (2) understanding the effects of environmental chemicals on mental development and developmental toxicity, and (3) research on health impact assessment of environmental chemicals from the perspective of placental toxicity. We would like to use this symposium as an opportunity to introduce the latest topics, leading to promote research evaluating the effects of environmental chemicals exposure on maternal and child health and to discuss the prospects.