Paper Title
How Environmental Contaminants Affect Ovarian Functions. Protective Effect Of Some Medical, Food and Drink Plants

Abstract
This abstract summarizes the original data concerning direct influence of oil-related environmental contaminants (benzene, xylene, toluene), medical, food and drink plants (green tea, rooibos tea, flaxseed, chia, yucca, Tribulus terrestris) and plant molecules (resveratrol, quercetin, daidzein, diosgenin) on animal (mice, cow, pig, rabbit) ovarian functions. It was observed, that these molecules are able to affect ovarian cell proliferation, apoptosis and the release of steroid and peptide ovarian hormones. The effects of environmental contaminants depended of animal body condition/obesity rate. Some plants and plant molecules were able to prevent some effects on environmental contaminants. These observations demonstrate the direct influence of environmental contaminants on basic animal ovarian functions, as well as the ability of some plants and plant molecules to prevent negative effect of environmental contaminants. Acknowledgements: these studies were supported by APVV (projects APVV-0854-11, APVV-4040-11 and APVV-15-0296) and VEGA (project 1/0392/17).