Human pulmonary responses to experimental inhalation of high concentration fine and ultrafine magnesium oxide particles.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although animal experiments have shown that cadmium exposure results in severe dental caries, limited epidemiologic data are available on this issue. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to examine the relationship between environmental cadmium exposure and dental caries in children 6-12 years of age. METHODS:We analyzed c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arora M,Weuve J,Schwartz J,Wright RO

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic tubing soft and flexible. Animal data show that adverse effects of DEHP exposure may include reduced fertility, reduced sperm production in males, and ovarian dysfunction in females. Known treatments that involve high DEHP exposures are...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rais-Bahrami K,Nunez S,Revenis ME,Luban NL,Short BL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short articles on the following topics: *NIEHS Strategic Plan: New Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and Human Health; Beyond the Bench: Environmental Health Nursing: Putting Knowledge into Practice; Headliners: Inhibition of RLIP76 Causes Complete Regression of Melanoma in Mice. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hood E,Tillett T,Phelps J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant histone acetylation has been observed in carcinogenesis and cellular transformation associated with arsenic exposure; however, the molecular mechanisms and cellular outcomes of such changes are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the impact of tolerated and toxic arsenic trioxide (As2O3) e...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rahman S,Housein Z,Dabrowska A,Mayán MD,Boobis AR,Hajji N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Developmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or methylmercury (MeHg) can result in a variety of neurotoxic effects, including long-term auditory deficits. However, little is known about the effects of combined exposure to PCBs and MeHg on auditory function. OBJECTIVE:We developmentally exposed...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Powers BE,Poon E,Sable HJ,Schantz SL

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many mutagenic heterocyclic amines (HAs) have been isolated from cooked foods and pyrolysates of amino acids and proteins, and the carcinogenicity of 10 of these HAs in rodents and of 1 in monkeys has been reported. Quantification of these carcinogenic HAs in various kinds of cooked foods indicated that the level of 2...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wakabayashi K,Ushiyama H,Takahashi M,Nukaya H,Kim SB,Hirose M,Ochiai M,Sugimura T,Nagao M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable frequency of uterine leiomyoma in the human population calls into question the potential for the participation of environmental factors in tumor etiology. Having been implicated in the dramatic rise in hormone-related cancers in recent years, endocrine disruptors are salient suspects in this pathogenesi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hunter DS,Hodges LC,Eagon PK,Vonier PM,Fuchs-Young R,Bergerson JS,Walker CL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human exposure to carcinogenic Cr(VI) compounds is found among workers in a large number of professional groups, and it can also occur through environmental pollution. A significant number of toxic waste sites contain Cr as a major contaminant. In this paper we summarize our efforts to apply measurements of DNA-protei...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zhitkovich A,Voitkun V,Kluz T,Costa M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to current data, the capacity to cause nonprogrammed or unscheduled cell proliferation in target tissues, a common characteristic of chemical carcinogens, may play a more important role in the development of tumors than does genotoxicity. This paper provides strong support for the validity of this conclusion...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yoshikawa K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eliminating silicosis is a priority of the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. Prevalence is particularly high in developing countries. OBJECTIVES:We describe trends in silicosis among South African gold miners who had had an autopsy between 1975 and 2007 and quantify the co...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nelson G,Girdler-Brown B,Ndlovu N,Murray J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the rat pancreas is susceptible to experimental cancer induction, the spontaneous incidence of pancreatic cancer in this species is reported to be very low. However, we observed unusually high incidences of focal acinar hyperplasia and acinar adenoma in vehicle control male F344/N rats of some NCI/NTP 2-year tox...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Boorman GA,Eustis SL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the physical environment as a determinant of health is a major concern reported by the general public as well as by many policymakers. However, it remains one of the health determinants for which few available measures or indicators are readily available. This lack of data is compounded by the fact that ev...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Elliott SJ,Eyles J,DeLuca P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade much information has been published on the analysis of organics extracted from treated water. Certain of these organics have been shown to be by-products of the chlorination disinfection process and to possess harmful effects at high concentrations. This has resulted in increased interest in alter...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watts CD,Crathorne B,Fielding M,Killops SD

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of plants and plant/microbial associations may offer a viable means of accomplishing the in situ remediation of contaminated soils. Two uses of plants for phytoremediation are reported here. In one set of studies, the ability of plants to foster degradative microorganisms was investigated. Results indic...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Shann JR

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an overview of the problem of genetic susceptibility to childhood cancer with a particular emphasis on problems with ascertaining inherited cancer risk and the role of tumor-suppressor gene mutations in cancer predispositions. The association between neurofibromatosis type 1 and childhood leukemi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Shannon K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Industrial air pollution is a public health hazard. Previous evidence documented increased respiratory symptoms and hospitalizations in children who live near the factories in the largest chipboard manufacturing district in Italy (Viadana). OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the association of outdoor exposure to form...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Marcon A,Fracasso ME,Marchetti P,Doria D,Girardi P,Guarda L,Pesce G,Pironi V,Ricci P,de Marco R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental occupational exposures might affect childhood cancer in the offspring through genetic changes in the ovum or sperm or through transplacental carcinogenesis. The 24 published epidemiologic studies of this association have all used case-control designs, with controls generally selected from birth certificates o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Savitz DA,Chen JH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that female mosquitofish living downstream of a paper mill located on the Fenholloway River, Florida, have masculinized secondary sex characteristics, including altered anal fin development and reproductive behavior. Masculinization can be caused by exposure to androgens in the water or from an alte...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Orlando EF,Davis WP,Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies report associations between particulate air pollution and cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. Although the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms remain unclear, it has been hypothesized that altered autonomic function and pulmonary/systemic inflammation may play a role. In this study we exp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pope CA 3rd,Hansen ML,Long RW,Nielsen KR,Eatough NL,Wilson WE,Eatough DJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality curves for groups of fasted male rats treated with single, oral doses of 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE, vinylidene chloride) were not monotonically increasing sigmoids, but were complex with maxima or extended plateaus in the region of dose between 100 and 700 mg of 1,1-DCE/kg. The exact shape was a function...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Andersen ME,Jenkins LJ Jr

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early-life exposure to lead is associated with deficits in neurodevelopment and with hematopoietic system toxicity. DNA methylation may be one of the underlying mechanisms for the adverse effects of prenatal lead on the offspring, but epigenome-wide methylation data for low levels of prenatal lead exposure a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wu S,Hivert MF,Cardenas A,Zhong J,Rifas-Shiman SL,Agha G,Colicino E,Just AC,Amarasiriwardena C,Lin X,Litonjua AA,DeMeo DL,Gillman MW,Wright RO,Oken E,Baccarelli AA

更新日期：2017-08-25 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：:A comprehensive effort was undertaken to identify articles demonstrating chemical hormesis. Nearly 4000 potentially relevant articles were retrieved from preliminary computer database searches by using various key word descriptors and extensive cross-referencing. A priori evaluation criteria were established including...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Calabrese EJ,Baldwin LA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although a long latency period of toxicity after exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) is known to exist in humans, few animal studies have addressed this issue. Substantiation of delayed MeHg toxicity in animals would affect the risk evaluation of MeHg. OBJECTIVES:Our goal in this study was to demonstrate the e...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yoshida M,Shimizu N,Suzuki M,Watanabe C,Satoh M,Mori K,Yasutake A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cohort studies in North America and western Europe have reported increased risk of mortality associated with long-term exposure to fine particles (PM2.5), but to date, no such studies have been reported in China, where higher levels of exposure are experienced. OBJECTIVES:We estimated the association betwee...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yin P,Brauer M,Cohen A,Burnett RT,Liu J,Liu Y,Liang R,Wang W,Qi J,Wang L,Zhou M

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many assays for oncogenic transformation have been developed ranging from those in established rodent cell lines where morphological alteration is scored, to those in human cells growing in nude mice where tumor invasiveness is scored. In general, systems that are most quantitative are also the least relevant in terms...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hall EJ,Hei TK

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a 1-year epidemiologic study in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning May 1997, to examine the associations between environmental factors and office workers' health. We recruited 98 subjects (81 females and 17 males) in 21 offices in four office buildings. We conducted environmental sampling every 6 weeks and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chao HJ,Schwartz J,Milton DK,Burge HA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perchlorate (ClO4-) has been detected in groundwater sources in numerous communities in California and other parts of the United States, raising concerns about potential impacts on health. For California communities where ClO4- was tested in 1997 and 1998, we evaluated the prevalence of primary congenital hypothyroidi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Buffler PA,Kelsh MA,Lau EC,Edinboro CH,Barnard JC,Rutherford GW,Daaboul JJ,Palmer L,Lorey FW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1996 the U.S. Congress charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop a screening program to test chemicals for their possible estrogenic and other endocrine effects. Shortly thereafter, the Chemical Guidelines Program of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Environmental...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Colborn T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies examining the association between exposure to tap water contaminants (such as chlorination by-products) and disease outcomes (such as cancer and adverse reproductive outcomes) have been limited by inaccurate exposure assessment. Failure to take into account the variation in beverage and tap wat...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Shimokura GH,Savitz DA,Symanski E

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00