Bioavailability and biotransformation of benzo(a)pyrene in an isolated perfused In situ catfish intestinal preparation.

abstract：:Studies were performed to investigate the effects of FireMaster FF-1, a chemical fire retardant consisting of a mixture of polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), on immune functions in mice and rats. Animals received 22 daily treatments of 0.03, 0.3, 3.0, or 30 mg PBB/kg body weight in a period covering 30 days. PBB exposure...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Luster MI,Faith RE,Moore JA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are suspected of altering estrogenic signaling through estrogen receptor (ER) α or β (mERβ1 in mice). Several EDC effects have been reported in animal studies and extrapolated to human studies. Unlike humans, rodents express a novel isoform of ERβ (mERβ2) with a modified...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Donoghue LJ,Neufeld TI,Li Y,Arao Y,Coons LA,Korach KS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Africa is quickly becoming a destination for information technology in the form of tons of used computers, fax machines, cell phones, and other electronics. Although many of these machines can be repaired and resold, up to 75% of the electronics shipped to Africa is junk. This equipment, when dumped, may leach lead, m...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schmidt CW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of inhaled zinc oxide/hexachloroethane smoke (11,580 mg x min/m3) and intratracheally instilled zinc chloride (2.5 mg/kg body weight) have been studied in rat lung. The effects of subsequent treatment with 70% oxygen have been studied after both procedures. Both the inhalation of the smoke and instillation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown RF,Marrs TC,Rice P,Masek LC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to air polluted with particles less than 2.5 micron in size is associated epidemiologically with adverse cardiopulmonary health consequences in humans. The goal of this study was to characterize human pulmonary responses to controlled experimental high-dose exposure to fine and ultrafine magnesium oxide parti...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuschner WG,Wong H,D'Alessandro A,Quinlan P,Blanc PD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent policies attempting to reduce adverse effects of methylmercury exposure from fish consumption in the United States have targeted reductions in anthropogenic emissions from U.S. sources. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the prospects for future North American and international emissions controls, we assessed the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Selin NE,Sunderland EM,Knightes CD,Mason RP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under a congressional mandate to revise its current standard for arsenic in drinking water. We present a risk assessment for cancers of the bladder, liver, and lung from exposure to arsenic in water, based on data from 42 villages in an arseniasis-endemic region of Taiwan. W...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Morales KH,Ryan L,Kuo TL,Wu MM,Chen CJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean pollution affects marine organisms and ecosystems as well as humans. The International Oceanographic Commission recommends ocean health monitoring programs to investigate the presence of marine contaminants and the health of threatened species and the use of multiple and early-warning biomarker approac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Godard-Codding CA,Clark R,Fossi MC,Marsili L,Maltese S,West AG,Valenzuela L,Rowntree V,Polyak I,Cannon JC,Pinkerton K,Rubio-Cisneros N,Mesnick SL,Cox SB,Kerr I,Payne R,Stegeman JJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumonisin B1(FB1) is a fungal metabolite of Fusarium verticillioides (= F. moniliforme), a fungus that grows on many crops worldwide. Previous studies demonstrated that male BD IX rats consuming diets containing 50 ppm fumonisin B1 developed hepatocellular carcinomas. In our recent studies, diets containing FB1 at 50 ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Howard PC,Warbritton A,Voss KA,Lorentzen RJ,Thurman JD,Kovach RM,Bucci TJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drinking water in multiple water districts in the Mid-Ohio Valley has been contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which was released by a nearby DuPont chemical plant. Two highly contaminated water districts began granular activated carbon filtration in 2007. OBJECTIVES:To determine the rate of de...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bartell SM,Calafat AM,Lyu C,Kato K,Ryan PB,Steenland K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we found that exposure of neonatal rats to chlorpyrifos (CPF) produced brain cell damage and loss, with resultant abnormalities of synaptic development. We used the same biomarkers to examine prenatal CPF treatment so as to define the critical period of vulnerability. One group of pregnant rats received CP...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Qiao D,Seidler FJ,Padilla S,Slotkin TA

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to examine whether perinatal exposure to two major environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals, bisphenol A (BPA; 0.1 mg/kg/day orally) and nonylphenol [NP; 0.1 mg/kg/day (low dose) and 10 mg/kg/day (high dose) orally] daily from gestational day 3 to postnatal day 20 (transplacental and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Negishi T,Kawasaki K,Suzaki S,Maeda H,Ishii Y,Kyuwa S,Kuroda Y,Yoshikawa Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major aspects that must be considered in studies of the health effects of environmental pollutants are: the direct damage due to the exposure, the role of pre-existing disease, and effects of the exposure on the response to secondary stresses. In experimental studies at concentrations of air pollutants found in ur...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ehrlich R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational and environmental asbestos exposure continues to represent a public health problem, despite increasingly restrictive laws adopted by most industrialized countries. Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive asbestos-related malignancy. We present the case of a 65-year-old man who developed recurrent...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fonte R,Gambettino S,Melazzini M,Scelsi M,Zanon C,Candura SM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) with breast cancer is controversial, but animal studies directly linking DDT to risk are lacking. Concerns with DDT reside in its environmental persistence, bioaccumulation in breast adipose tissue, and endocrine-disrupting actions. Whereas most attent...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johnson NA,Ho A,Cline JM,Hughes CL,Foster WG,Davis VL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[35S]t-Butylbicyclophosphorothionate or [35S]TBPS is an improved radioligand for the picrotoxinin binding site in rat brain synaptic membranes. The toxic isomers of the hexachlorocyclohexanes, polychlorobornanes, and chlorinated cyclodienes displace [35S]TBPS with a stereospecificity and potency generally correlated w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Casida JE,Lawrence LJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in the neighborhood food environment may contribute to disparities in obesity. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the association of neighborhood food environments with body mass index (BMI) and obesity after control for neighborhood walkability. METHODS:This study employed a c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rundle A,Neckerman KM,Freeman L,Lovasi GS,Purciel M,Quinn J,Richards C,Sircar N,Weiss C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increased concern over health effects related to potential exposure of building occupants to bioaerosols. We report the case of a worker with a respiratory illness related to bioaerosol exposure in a water-damaged building with extensive fungal contamination. We performed environmental tests to evaluate...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Trout D,Bernstein J,Martinez K,Biagini R,Wallingford K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies conducted by the National Toxicology Program on the chronic toxicity of benzene indicated that B6C3F1 mice were more sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of benzene than were F344 rats. A physiological model was developed to describe the uptake and metabolism of benzene in rats and mice. Our objective was to ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Medinsky MA,Sabourin PJ,Henderson RF,Lucier G,Birnbaum LS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical developments in the 21st century provide an unprecedented opportunity to gain a dynamic systems-level and human-specific understanding of the causes and pathophysiologies of disease. This understanding is a vital need, in view of continuing failures in health research, drug discovery, and clinical translati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Langley G,Austin CP,Balapure AK,Birnbaum LS,Bucher JR,Fentem J,Fitzpatrick SC,Fowle JR 3rd,Kavlock RJ,Kitano H,Lidbury BA,Muotri AR,Peng SQ,Sakharov D,Seidle T,Trez T,Tonevitsky A,van de Stolpe A,Whelan M,Willett C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential danger of natural mercury accumulation in the diet of the Eskimo is evaluated through mercury levels determined in cord blood, placenta, maternal blood, hair, and milk of 38 maternal-infant pairs from Anchorage and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Although mercury levels are not discernably dangerous, trends t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Galster WA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have examined the effects of air pollution on mortality, data limitations have resulted in fewer studies of both particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 and < 10 mi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zanobetti A,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the effect of intake of mutagenic and/or carcinogenic pyrolysis products of proteins and amino acids on carcinogenesis in man, we have undertaken two epidemiologic cohort studies: one concerning the possible association of broiled fish consumption with cancer and the other concerning the cancer mortality ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuratsune M,Ikeda M,Hayashi T

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that local public health agencies use local data to identify children at risk for lead exposure to ensure that they receive preventive services. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the usefulness of a geographic information system (GIS) in identifying...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Reissman DB,Staley F,Curtis GB,Kaufmann RB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most widely used classes of insecticides is the synthetic pyrethroids. Although pyrethroids are less acutely toxic to humans than to insects, in vitro studies have suggested that pyrethroids may be estrogenic. OBJECTIVES:We assessed pubertal effects by orally administering 0.5, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/kg...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pine MD,Hiney JK,Lee B,Dees WL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central feature of hemopoiesis is life-long, stable cell renewal. This process is supported by hemopoietic stem cells which, in the steady state, appear to be dormant in cell cycling. The entry into cell cycle of the dormant stem cells may be promoted by such factors as interleukin-1, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and gra...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ogawa M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1976, near Seveso, Italy, an industrial accident caused the release of large quantities of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere, resulting in the highest levels of the toxicant ever recorded in humans. The contaminated area was divided into three zones (A, B, R) corresponding to decreasing...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Landi MT,Consonni D,Patterson DG Jr,Needham LL,Lucier G,Brambilla P,Cazzaniga MA,Mocarelli P,Pesatori AC,Bertazzi PA,Caporaso NE

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg) exposure has been linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Paraoxonase 1 (PON1), an enzyme located in the high-density-lipoprotein (HDL) fraction of blood lipids, may protect against CHD by metabolizing toxic oxidized lipids associated with low-density liproprotein an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ayotte P,Carrier A,Ouellet N,Boiteau V,Abdous B,Sidi EA,Château-Degat ML,Dewailly É

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residents of Anniston, Alabama, live near a Monsanto plant that manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from 1929 to 1971 and are relatively heavily exposed. OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to determine the relationship, if any, between blood pressure and levels of total serum PCBs, several PCB ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goncharov A,Pavuk M,Foushee HR,Carpenter DO,Anniston Environmental Health Reseach Consortium.

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00