Predicting health effects of exposures to compounds with estrogenic activity: methodological issues.

abstract：:The populations of the developed nations of the world exhibit an increase in blood pressure with age, while in primitive societies blood pressure remains relatively constant throughout adult life. Hypertension may be a complex of diseases all having the same clinical manifestations but not being caused necessarily by ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tuthill RW,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinogenic properties of selected metals and their compounds are reviewed to provide a useful reference for existing knowledge on relationships between physical and chemical forms, kinetics and carcinogenic potential and between epidemiology, bioassays, and short-term tests. Extensive consideration is given to a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Magos L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phthalates, known endocrine disruptors, may play a role in breast carcinogenesis. Few studies have examined phthalates in relation to breast cancer (BC), and, to our knowledge, none have considered survival following BC. OBJECTIVES:We examined 11 urinary phthalate metabolites, individually and as molar sum ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Parada H Jr,Gammon MD,Chen J,Calafat AM,Neugut AI,Santella RM,Wolff MS,Teitelbaum SL

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to arsenic via drinking water is a global environmental health problem. In utero exposure to arsenic via drinking water increases the risk of lower respiratory tract infections during infancy and mortality from bronchiectasis in early adulthood. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to investigate how arsenic exposu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ramsey KA,Bosco A,McKenna KL,Carter KW,Elliot JG,Berry LJ,Sly PD,Larcombe AN,Zosky GR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary components express a wide range of activities that can affect carcinogenesis. Naturally occurring substances in foods have been shown in laboratory experiments to serve as dietary antimutagens, either as bioantimutagens or as desmutagens. Dietary desmutagens may function as chemical inactivaters, enzymatic ind...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kohlmeier L,Simonsen N,Mottus K

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:A wide range of chemicals with diverse structures derived from plant and environmental origins are reported to have hormonal activity. The potential for appreciable exposure of humans to such substances prompts the need to develop sensitive screening methods to quantitate and evaluate the risk to the public. Yeast cel...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Coldham NG,Dave M,Sivapathasundaram S,McDonnell DP,Connor C,Sauer MJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of DNA base sequence alterations have shown that for every agent the mutagenic process is specific with respect to the types of base changes induced and the location of the changes in the DNA. Analysis of the types of mutations produced by mutagenic agents can provide insight into the mechanism of mutation and...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Skopek TR,Wood RD,Hutchinson F

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques are available to minimize the concentration of asbestos fibers in drinking water. Filtration research conducted at locations on Lake Superior and in the Cascade Mountains in Washington has shown that amphibole and chrysotile fibers can be removed by granular media filtration. Removal percentages can exceed ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Logsdon GS

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of polymeric materials in the body to repair and restore damaged or diseased tissues and organs is substantially increasing on an annual basis. Concomitant with this use is an increase in materials related research on medically used polymers. Information on the historical and current clinical use of p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： King RN,Lyman DJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Findings from national surveys suggest that everyone in the United States is exposed to perchlorate. At high doses, perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate inhibit iodide uptake into the thyroid and decrease thyroid hormone production. Small changes in thyroid hormones during pregnancy, including changes withi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Steinmaus C,Pearl M,Kharrazi M,Blount BC,Miller MD,Pearce EN,Valentin-Blasini L,DeLorenze G,Hoofnagle AN,Liaw J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sertoli cell is the primary target for FSH action in the mammalian testis. These cells contain the majority of testicular plasma membrane receptors for this hormone. Receptor occupancy is directly correlated with a stimulation of adenylyl cyclase and a decrease in the activity of a cytoplasmic Ca++-sensitive cAMP ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tindall DJ,Tash JS,Means AR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystallographic structural determinations of synthetic estrogens and antiestrogens provide reliable information on the global minimum energy conformation of these molecules or a local minimum energy conformation that is within 1 or 2 kcal/mole of the global minimum. In favorable cases, state-of-the-art mole...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Duax WL,Griffin JF,Weeks CM,Korach KS

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noise exposure causes changes at different levels in human organs, particularly the cardiovascular system, where it is responsible for increasing heart rate, peripheral vascular resistance, and blood pressure. In this study, we evaluated the effect of noise exposure on DNA integrity and ultrastructure of rat cardiomyo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lenzi P,Frenzilli G,Gesi M,Ferrucci M,Lazzeri G,Fornai F,Nigro M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestos and silica are well-known fibrogenic dusts. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of the molecular and cellular events that lead to fibrosis as a consequence of asbestos or silica inhalation. Previous studies have shown that asbestos stimulates superoxide anion production in alveolar macrophages th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holian A,Kelley K,Hamilton RF Jr

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most people are thought to receive their highest acute exposures to gasoline while refueling, relatively little is actually known about personal, nonoccupational exposures to gasoline during refueling activities. This study was designed to measure exposures associated with the use of an oxygenated fuel under ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Backer LC,Egeland GM,Ashley DL,Lawryk NJ,Weisel CP,White MC,Bundy T,Shortt E,Middaugh JP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic particulate matter in foods and drugs is discussed from the standpoint of determination by optical microscopy, source, and regulatory significance. Some particulate matter may be generated as extraneous material and traced to specific operational practices during processing and production with excessive leve...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Eisenberg WV

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief history of the development of the field of aquatic toxicology is provided. In order to provide a perspective on the state-of-the-art in aquatic toxicology relative to classical toxicology, the two fields are compared from the standpoint of the type of scientist practicing each field, the respective objectives ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Macek KJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drinking water contamination related to the use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) has been documented at hundreds of military bases, airports, and firefighter training facilities. AFFF has historically contained high levels of long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which pose serious health...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Annunziato KM,Doherty J,Lee J,Clark JM,Liang W,Clark CW,Nguyen M,Roy MA,Timme-Laragy AR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report reviews the recent literature on the adverse effects of occupational factors on fertility and related reproductive outcomes. Few studies fulfill the criteria of good study design because of small sample size, insensitive measures of effect, selection, recall, and observation bias, weak if any control of co...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baranski B

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Nitroaromatic compounds, ArNO2 have widespread actual or potential use in medicine and cancer therapy. There is direct proof that free-radical metabolites are involved in many applications, and an appreciation of the conceptual basis for their therapeutic differential; however, an understanding of the detailed mechani...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wardman P

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once a sign of modernization and growth, dams are often seen today as symbols of environmental and social devastation. Over 800,000 dams have been built worldwide to provide drinking water, flood control, hydropower, irrigation, navigation, and water storage. Dams do indeed provide these things,but at the cost of seve...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Joyce S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many instances pharmacokinetic modeling offers the best method of interpreting the significance to man of results obtained with laboratory animals but first we must have accurate models for our laboratory animals. A physiological pharmacokinetic model has been used to simulate the disposition of polychlorinated bip...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Matthews HB,Tuey DB,Anderson MW

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residents living in communities near Superfund sites have expressed concern that releases from these facilities affect their health, including adverse effects on their immune systems. We used data from six cross-sectional studies to evaluate whether people who live near several Superfund sites are more likely to have ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Williamson DM,White MC,Poole C,Kleinbaum D,Vogt R,North K

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant Sprague Dawley rats were given 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, and 10 mg of a commercial polybrominated biphenyl, FireMaster BP-6 (PBB), in olive oil by gavage each day from days 7 through 15 of pregnancy. Laboratory chow and water were given ad libitum. Treatment with PBB had no significant effect on body weight gain, f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harris SJ,Cecil HC,Bitman J

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) suppressed pulmonary clearance of Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) and inhibited the phagocytosis of alveolar macrophages and their response to Listeria in the secretion of interleukin (IL)-1 beta, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and IL-12. In this report we exa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yin XJ,Schafer R,Ma JY,Antonini JM,Roberts JR,Weissman DN,Siegel PD,Ma JK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a cooperative agreement between New York University and the Environmental Protection Agency, and in collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo (USP), a study is ongoing in Cubatao, Brazil, to try to establish exposure-response relationships on the impact of specific industrial effluents on respiratory functi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Spektor DM,Hofmeister VA,Artaxo P,Brague JA,Echelar F,Nogueira DP,Hayes C,Thurston GD,Lippmann M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the potential links between extreme weather events and human health in India is important in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Research exploring such linkages in India is sparse. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the association between extreme precipitation and gastrointes...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bush KF,O'Neill MS,Li S,Mukherjee B,Hu H,Ghosh S,Balakrishnan K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Millions of individuals worldwide, particularly those living in rural and developing areas, are exposed to harmful levels of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in their drinking water. Inorganic As exposure during key developmental periods is associated with a variety of adverse health effects, including those that are...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bailey KA,Smith AH,Tokar EJ,Graziano JH,Kim KW,Navasumrit P,Ruchirawat M,Thiantanawat A,Suk WA,Fry RC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00