Methylation study of a population environmentally exposed to arsenic in drinking water.

abstract：:With the "graying of America," the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD) will make increasingly greater demands on Medicare/Medicaid resources, which will greatly strain the national economy. It is imperative that prevention and intervention strategies for t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

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更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes two roundtable discussions held at the conclusion of the International Conference on Biopersistence of Respirable Synthetic Fibres and Minerals. The first round table addressed the role of biopersistence in the pathogenicity of fiber-induced disease. The panel included T. W. Hesterberg (Chairman)...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： McClellan RO,Hesterberg TW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells in culture have been used to study the genetic effects of physical and chemical agents. We have used Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, clone K1-BH4, to quantify mutations at the X-linked, large (35 kb) hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) locus (the CHO/HPRT assay) induced by environm...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hsie AW,Xu Z,Yu Y,An J,Meltz ML,Schwartz JL,Hrelia P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discoveries that emerging and re-emerging pathogens have their origin in environmental change has created an urgent need to understand how these environmental changes impact disease burden. In this article we present a framework that provides a context from which to examine the relationship between environme...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Eisenberg JN,Desai MA,Levy K,Bates SJ,Liang S,Naumoff K,Scott JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the El Niño phenomenon intensifies the annual cycle of malaria cases for Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum in endemic areas of Colombia as a consequence of concomitant anomalies in the normal annual cycle of temperature and precipitation. We used simultaneous analyses of both variable...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Poveda G,Rojas W,Quiñones ML,Vélez ID,Mantilla RI,Ruiz D,Zuluaga JS,Rua GL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of genetic damage in the forms of activated proto-oncogenes and inactivated tumor-suppressor genes is the driving force in the evolution of a normal cell to a malignant cell. For example, both the activation of ras oncogenes and the inactivation of several suppressor genes, including p53, have been ob...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anderson MW,Reynolds SH,You M,Maronpot RM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their history of widespread use in the United States and unknown long-term health effects, organophosphate pesticides (OPs) are being considered as a chemical class of interest in planning for the National Children's Study, a longitudinal study of children's environmental health. The availability and approp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wessels D,Barr DB,Mendola P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to a wide variety of analyses and projections, the potential effects of global climate change on human health are large and diverse. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its basic, clinical, and population research portfolio of grants, has been increasing efforts to understand how ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jessup CM,Balbus JM,Christian C,Haque E,Howe SE,Newton SA,Reid BC,Roberts L,Wilhelm E,Rosenthal JP

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously conducted a study to assess whether household exposures to tap water increased an individual's internal dose of trihalomethanes (THMs). Increases in blood THM levels among subjects who showered or bathed were variable, with increased levels tending to cluster in two groups. OBJECTIVES:Our goal...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Backer LC,Lan Q,Blount BC,Nuckols JR,Branch R,Lyu CW,Kieszak SM,Brinkman MC,Gordon SM,Flanders WD,Romkes M,Cantor KP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, 2.8 billion people rely on household solid fuels. Reducing the resulting adverse health, environmental, and development consequences will involve transitioning through a mix of clean fuels and improved solid fuel stoves (IS) of demonstrable effectiveness. To date, achieving uptake of IS has present...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rehfuess EA,Puzzolo E,Stanistreet D,Pope D,Bruce NG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most air pollution in West Germany is caused by combustion products. Particulate organic matter released by incomplete combustion is suspected to contribute to the "urban factor" of lung cancer frequency in urban-industrial centers. The carcinogenic potential of single components, groups of compounds and total source ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pott F,Stöber W

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incorporating the influence of genetic variation in the risk assessment process is often considered, but no generalized approach exists. Many common human diseases such as asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular disease are complex in nature, as they are influenced variably by environmental, physiologic, and gene...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Demchuk E,Yucesoy B,Johnson VJ,Andrew M,Weston A,Germolec DR,De Rosa CT,Luster MI

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been used as flame retardants and are becoming a ubiquitous environmental contaminant. Adverse effects in the developing brain are of great health concern. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the effect of PBDEs/hydroxylated PBDEs (OH-PBDEs) on thyroid hormone (TH) receptor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ibhazehiebo K,Iwasaki T,Kimura-Kuroda J,Miyazaki W,Shimokawa N,Koibuchi N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is the enzyme that hydrolyzes the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at cholinergic synapses and neuromuscular junctions. However, results from our laboratory and others indicate that AChE has an extrasynaptic, noncholinergic role during neural development. This article is a review of our findi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bigbee JW,Sharma KV,Gupta JJ,Dupree JL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl parathion (MP), an organophosphate pesticide licensed only for agricultural uses, was sprayed illegally for pest control in Mississippi and Ohio residences. To evaluate the association between MP exposure and neurobehavioral development, we assessed children 6 years or younger at the time of the spraying and lo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ruckart PZ,Kakolewski K,Bove FJ,Kaye WE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is ongoing discussion that inhaled nanoparticles (NPs, < 100 nm) may translocate from epithelial deposition sites of the lungs to systemic circulation. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS:We studied the disappearance of NPs from the epithelium by sequential lung retention and clearance and bronchoalveolar lavage (...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Semmler-Behnke M,Takenaka S,Fertsch S,Wenk A,Seitz J,Mayer P,Oberdörster G,Kreyling WG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policy decisions regarding climate change mitigation are increasingly incorporating the beneficial and adverse health impacts of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies. Studies of such co-benefits and co-harms involve modeling approaches requiring a range of analytic decisions that affect the model out...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Remais JV,Hess JJ,Ebi KL,Markandya A,Balbus JM,Wilkinson P,Haines A,Chalabi Z

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methylmercury through fish consumption. However, blood mercury levels in this group have not been identified in recent reports of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the y...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hightower JM,O'Hare A,Hernandez GT

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a human toxicant and carcinogen. Genetic variation might affect long-term accumulation. Cd is absorbed via iron transporters. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the impact of iron homeostasis genes [divalent metal transporter 1 (SLC11A2), transferrin (TF), transferrin receptors (TFR2 and TFRC), and fer...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rentschler G,Kippler M,Axmon A,Raqib R,Ekström EC,Skerfving S,Vahter M,Broberg K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 1997 we performed a follow-up survey of 146 lead-poisoned children from a community near a previously active auto battery recycling smelter in Haina near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Our follow-up survey confirmed a severe incidence of elevated blood lead (BPb) and erythrocyte protoporphyrin/zinc proto...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kaul B,Sandhu RS,Depratt C,Reyes F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human epidemiological and animal studies suggest that developmental exposure to contaminants that activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) lead to suppression of immune system function throughout life. The persistence of immune deficiency throughout life suggests that the cellular target of AHR activatio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Laiosa MD,Tate ER,Ahrenhoerster LS,Chen Y,Wang D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies have shown that airborne particulate matter (PM) with a mass median aerodynamic diameter < 10 microm (PM10) is associated with an increase in respiratory-related disease. However, there is a growing consensus that particles < 2.5 microm (PM2.5), including many in the ultrafine (< 0.1 microm) size...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Smith KR,Kim S,Recendez JJ,Teague SV,Ménache MG,Grubbs DE,Sioutas C,Pinkerton KE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is general concern that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) found in the environment, wildlife, food, water, house dust, human tissues, and fluids may alter normal human physiologic activities (e.g., fetal development, immune and endocrine systems). Although the levels of some POPs [polychlorinated bi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Doucet J,Tague B,Arnold DL,Cooke GM,Hayward S,Goodyer CG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The types of biological response to an environmental agent can depend on dose, thus in this case a family of widely different dose-response relationships would be expected. For those situations where the magnitude of the effect may be determined on probabilistic grounds as a function of dose ("stochastic" model), no p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Radford EP

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg) may affect fetal growth; however, prior research often lacked assessment of mercury speciation, confounders, and interactions. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to assess the relationship between MeHg and fetal growth as well as the potential for confounding or interaction of this relationshi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wells EM,Herbstman JB,Lin YH,Jarrett J,Verdon CP,Ward C,Caldwell KL,Hibbeln JR,Witter FR,Halden RU,Goldman LR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer worldwide. Most indoor exposure occurs by diffusion of soil gas. Radon is also found in well water, natural gas, and ambient air. Pennsylvania has high indoor radon concentrations; buildings are often tested during real estate transactions, with results report...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Casey JA,Ogburn EL,Rasmussen SG,Irving JK,Pollak J,Locke PA,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of rampant concern that estrogenic chemicals in the environment may be adversely affecting the health of humans and wildlife, reliable methods for detecting and characterizing estrogenic chemicals are needed. It is important that general agreement be reached on which tests to use and that these tests then be a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Shelby MD,Newbold RR,Tully DB,Chae K,Davis VL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phthalates comprise a large class of chemicals used in a variety of consumer products. Several have anti-androgenic properties, and in rodents prenatal exposure has been associated with reduced anogenital distance (AGD)-the distance from the anus to the genitals in male offspring. Few human studies have been...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jensen TK,Frederiksen H,Kyhl HB,Lassen TH,Swan SH,Bornehag CG,Skakkebaek NE,Main KM,Lind DV,Husby S,Andersson AM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic factors that should be considered in the design and interpretation of developmental neurotoxicity studies. Toxicologic effects on the developing nervous system depend on the delivered dose, exposure duration, and developmental stage at which exposure occurred. Several phar...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dorman DC,Allen SL,Byczkowski JZ,Claudio L,Fisher JE Jr,Fisher JW,Harry GJ,Li AA,Makris SL,Padilla S,Sultatos LG,Mileson BE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basophilic hepatic foci, nodules, and trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas, collectively referred to as focal hepatic lesions, were induced by single injections of 5.0 micrograms of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) per gram body weight in 15-day-old C57BL/6J X C3HeB/FeJ F1 (B6C3 F1) mice. Groups of eight experimental and eigh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goldfarb S,Pugh TD,Koen H,He YZ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00