Carcinogenic and cocarcinogenic effects of radon and radon daughters in rats.

abstract：:This cross-sectional study examined the association between environmental lead measurements surrounding a Los Angeles County battery recycling facility and the blood lead levels of the children living nearby. Environmental lead measurements and blood lead levels of young children living in a community adjacent to a st...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wohl AR,Dominguez A,Flessel P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important public health challenge has been the need to protect children's health. To accomplish this goal, the scientific community needs scientifically based child-specific risk assessment methods. Critical to their development is the need to understand mechanisms underlying children's sensitivity to environmental...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Faustman EM,Silbernagel SM,Fenske RA,Burbacher TM,Ponce RA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most serious consequences of cancer therapy is the development of a second cancer, especially leukemia. Several distinct subsets of therapy-related leukemia can now be distinguished. Classic therapy-related myeloid leukemia typically occurs 5 to 7 years after exposure to alkylating agents and/or irradiation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Larson RA,LeBeau MM,Vardiman JW,Rowley JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethene is, on a molar basis, a major urban air pollutant. It has been shown beyond doubt that a fraction of inhaled ethene is metabolized in mammals (including humans) via ethylene oxide, an electrophilic reagent that has been shown to be mutagenic and carcinogenic. To the extent that the linearity hypothesis for dose...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Törnqvist M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique nonrespiratory functions of the lungs have become more apparent in recent years. The isolated perfused lung model offers many advantages over other methods for the study of pulmonary metabolism, xenobiotic disposition and the influence of interactions among agents of different physical forms. Detailed descr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Niemeier RW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on the influence of selenium on the toxicity of methylmercury and of methylmercury on selenium as a nutrient and toxic agent are reviewed. Selenium as selenite has a relative protective effect on acute and subacute toxicity of methylmercury in the rat and the quail. The protective mechanism is far f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Skerfving S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High cadmium exposure is known to cause bone damage, but the association between low-level cadmium exposure and osteoporosis remains to be clarified. Using a population-based women's health survey in southern Sweden [Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) ] with no known historical cadmium contamination, we investiga...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Akesson A,Bjellerup P,Lundh T,Lidfeldt J,Nerbrand C,Samsioe G,Skerfving S,Vahter M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This working paper summarizes the known ultrastructural and biochemical effects of lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic on subcellular organelle systems following in vivo administration. Documented metal-induced alterations in nuclear, mitochondrial, microsomal, and lysosomal functions are discussed in relation to thei...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fowler BA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental chemicals that function as estrogens have been suggested to be associated with an increase in disease and dysfunctions in animals and humans. To characterize chemicals that may act as estrogens in humans, we have compared three in vitro assays which measure aspects of human estrogen receptor (hER)-mediat...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Klotz DM,Beckman BS,Hill SM,McLachlan JA,Walters MR,Arnold SF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxic action of a series of mineral dusts has been studied using Chinese hamster V79-4 cells obtained from three separate laboratories in the UK. The dusts which have been studied include samples of asbestos from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer reference series and an internationally available sample...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lock SO,Chamberlain M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Daily adult human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been estimated at <1 µg/kg, with virtually complete first-pass conjugation in the liver in primates but not in mice. We measured unconjugated and conjugated BPA levels in serum from adult female rhesus monkeys and adult female mice after oral administration ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Taylor JA,Vom Saal FS,Welshons WV,Drury B,Rottinghaus G,Hunt PA,Toutain PL,Laffont CM,VandeVoort CA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study on building-related respiratory disease and associated social impact in an office building with water incursions in the northeastern United States. An initial questionnaire had 67% participation (888/1,327). Compared with the U.S. adult population, prevalence ratios were 2.2-2.5 for wheezing, life...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cox-Ganser JM,White SK,Jones R,Hilsbos K,Storey E,Enright PL,Rao CY,Kreiss K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although patients with heart failure (HF) have been identified as particularly susceptible to the acute effects of air pollution, the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on patients with this increasingly prevalent disease are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to examine the mort...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Medina-Ramón M,Goldberg R,Melly S,Mittleman MA,Schwartz J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally agreed that estrogens, and possibly androgens, are important in the etiology of breast cancer, but no consensus exists as to the precise estrogenic or androgenic environment that characterizes risk, or the exogenous factors that influence the hormonal milieu. Nearly all the epidemiological studies cond...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Toniolo PG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Animal feeding practices in the United States have changed considerably over the past century. As large-scale, concentrated production methods have become the predominant model for animal husbandry, animal feeds have been modified to include ingredients ranging from rendered animals and animal waste to antibi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sapkota AR,Lefferts LY,McKenzie S,Walker P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomarkers are desirable for quantitating human exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and for predicting potential health risks for exposed individuals. A number of biomarkers of ETS have been proposed. At present cotinine, measured in blood, saliva, or urine, appears to be the most specific and the most sensi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Benowitz NL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human fibroblasts (HFW) were 10-fold more susceptible than Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells to sodium arsenite. Comparison of cellular antioxidant enzyme activities showed that CHO-K1 cells contained 3- and 8-fold more glutathione-peroxidase and catalase activities, respectively, than HFW cells. Since vitamin E, m...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lee TC,Ho IC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk assessment is a process often divided into the following steps: a) hazard identification, b) dose-response assessment, c) exposure assessment, and d) risk characterization. Regulatory toxicity studies usually are aimed at providing data for the first two steps. Human case reports, environmental research, and in v...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harry GJ,Billingsley M,Bruinink A,Campbell IL,Classen W,Dorman DC,Galli C,Ray D,Smith RA,Tilson HA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cap43 is a protein whose RNA is induced under conditions of severe hypoxia or prolonged elevations of intracellular calcium. Additionally, Ni and Co also induce Cap43 because they produce a state of hypoxia in cells. Cap43 protein is expressed at low levels in normal tissues; however, in a variety of cancers, includin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cangul H,Salnikow K,Yee H,Zagzag D,Commes T,Costa M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead encephalopathy was induced in developing Long-Evans rats by adding lead carbonate (4% w/w) to the diet of nursing mother immediately after delivery. The morphological and biochemical features of cerebral ontogenesis were studied in 30-day-old rats. By the 30th postnatal day, the overall effect of lead intoxicatio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Krigman MR,Hogan EL

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphates in increasing amounts and wider varieties of molecular structure are being used to replace the organochlorine pesticides. It has been assumed that the organophosphates as a class would have a minimal chronic toxicity due to rapid hydrolysis and an unfavorable partitioning as regards to lipids. The phy...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Freed VH,Haque R,Schmedding D,Kohnert R

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data from deep uranium mines in Czechoslovakia indicated that mines are exposed to other mutagenic factors in addition to radon daughter products. Mycotoxins were identified as a possible source of mutagens in these mines. Mycotoxins were examined in 38 samples from mines and in throat swabs taken from 116 mine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Srám RJ,Dobiás L,Rössner P,Veselá D,Veselý D,Rakusová R,Rericha V

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic toxicology databases for chemicals that have been tested extensively are generally composed of inconsistent responses from a diverse set of assays. Consequently, difficulties arise when the data are evaluated for classifying the agent or for assessing the chemical's hazard potential. Several years ago, the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brusick D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articles in the literature on alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency have been interpreted as indicating that AAT deficiency is a rare disease that affects mainly Caucasians (whites) from northern Europe. In a recent publication on the worldwide racial and ethnic distribution of AAT deficiency, new data were presented d...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： de Serres FJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm delivery can lead to serious infant health outcomes, including death and lifelong disability. Small increases in preterm delivery risk in relation to spatial gradients of air pollution have been reported, but previous studies may have controlled inadequately for individual factors. Using a time-series analysis...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sagiv SK,Mendola P,Loomis D,Herring AH,Neas LM,Savitz DA,Poole C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most neurotoxicological studies morphological assessment focuses on pathological effects, like degenerative changes in neuronal perikarya, axonopathy, demyelination, and glial and endothelial cell reactions. Similarly, the assessment of physiological and behavioral effects center on evident neurological symptoms, l...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Altman J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings of studies investigating whether exposures to ionizing radiation before birth, either pre- or post-conception, increase the risk of childhood cancer have provoked much scientific controversy. An epidemiological association between the abdominal exposure of pregnant women to diagnostic X-rays and childhood...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wakeford R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular and extracellular metal concentrations were measured using carbon fiber ultramicrosensors plated with mercury or with polymeric porphyrinic p-type semiconductors. Concentrations of unbound nickel and lead ions were studied within individual BC3H-1 myocytes, and H4-11-C3 rat hepatoma cells. Unbound ions a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Malinski T,Grunfeld S,Taha Z,Tomboulian P

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations have demonstrated the ability of leukocytes to metabolize promutagens or procarcinogens into their genotoxic forms. As a possible explanation for the association between inflammation and cancer, we and others have hypothesized that local accumulations of leukocytes could take up nearby promutagen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Isola VJ,Hartman TC,Trumble SJ,Ruzek MC,Gentile JM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the developing brain, serotonin (5HT) systems are among the most sensitive to disruption by organophosphates. OBJECTIVES:We exposed neonatal rats to daily doses of diazinon or parathion on postnatal days (PND)1-4 and evaluated 5HT receptors and the 5HT transporter in brainstem and forebrain on PND5, focu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slotkin TA,Tate CA,Ryde IT,Levin ED,Seidler FJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00