Agricultural exposures and cancer trends in developed countries.

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes catalyze the generation of reactive species capable of binding with cellular macromolecules, leading to acute and delayed toxicity. Since individual CYP forms differ markedly in their substrate preferences and regulation, the expression profiles of CYP in various cell types are important ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pelkonen O,Raunio H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have been conducted to identify risk factors for balance and vestibular dysfunction in general populations, but previous studies have reported evidence of adverse effects of lead and cadmium on balance control in high-risk groups. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the relationship between blood lead and ca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Min KB,Lee KJ,Park JB,Min JY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During May-June 2010, a childhood lead poisoning outbreak related to gold ore processing was confirmed in two villages in Zamfara State, Nigeria. During June-September of that year, villages with suspected or confirmed childhood lead poisoning continued to be identified in Zamfara State. OBJECTIVES:We inves...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lo YC,Dooyema CA,Neri A,Durant J,Jefferies T,Medina-Marino A,de Ravello L,Thoroughman D,Davis L,Dankoli RS,Samson MY,Ibrahim LM,Okechukwu O,Umar-Tsafe NT,Dama AH,Brown MJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the statistical properties of a simple two-stage model of carcinogenesis are explored. The implications of additive treatment effects versus independent treatment effects on the shape of the dose-response curve are considered. Response that is low-dose linear results in the cases where the mutation rates are a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Portier CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface IR (infrared) modes of crystalline and fumed (amorphous) silica particles, calcined at temperatures up to 1095 degrees C, have been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The ability of these same particles to lyse cells has been measured by a hemolysis protocol. The untreated crystalline and amor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pandurangi RS,Seehra MS,Razzaboni BL,Bolsaitis P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence on the association between colorectal cancer and exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water is inconsistent. OBJECTIVES:We assessed long-term exposure to trihalomethanes (THMs), the most prevalent group of chlorination by-products, to evaluate the association with colorectal cancer. ME...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Villanueva CM,Gracia-Lavedan E,Bosetti C,Righi E,Molina AJ,Martín V,Boldo E,Aragonés N,Perez-Gomez B,Pollan M,Acebo IG,Altzibar JM,Zabala AJ,Ardanaz E,Peiró R,Tardón A,Chirlaque MD,Tavani A,Polesel J,Serraino D,Pi

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anogenital distance (AGD) in animals is a sensitive biomarker of fetal endocrine disruption and the associated testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS). However, AGD in human infants with cryptorchidism and hypospadias, which are potential manifestations of TDS during childhood, is not clearly described. OBJECT...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thankamony A,Lek N,Carroll D,Williams M,Dunger DB,Acerini CL,Ong KK,Hughes IA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disruption of the reproductive system of male and female animals in the wild has been attributed to environmental chemicals (xenobiotics). The effects seen mirror alterations one might anticipate if the steroid hormone-dependent processes that regulate these systems were impaired. To determine whether xenobiotics ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Danzo BJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a mandate from the U.S. Congress, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducts animal bioassays for carcinogenicity of potentially toxic chemicals to which the U.S. population might be exposed. Methyleugenol, a natural as well as synthesized substance, was no...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schecter A,Lucier GW,Cunningham ML,Abdo KM,Blumenthal G,Silver AG,Melnick R,Portier C,Barr DB,Barr JR,Stanfill SB,Patterson DG Jr,Needham LL,Stopford W,Masten S,Mignogna J,Tung KC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochlorines are persistent lipophilic compounds that accumulate in Inuit people living in circumpolar countries. Organochlorines accumulate as a result of the Inuits' large consumption of sea mammal fat; however, available data are limited to blood lipids, milk fat, and adipose tissue. We report results of organoc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dewailly E,Mulvad G,Pedersen HS,Ayotte P,Demers A,Weber JP,Hansen JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual variability in human arsenic metabolism has been reported frequently in the literature. This variability could be an underlying determinant of individual susceptibility to arsenic-induced disease in humans. Recent analysis revealing familial aggregation of arsenic metabolic profiles suggests that genetic fa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yu L,Kalla K,Guthrie E,Vidrine A,Klimecki WT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ubiquitous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been shown to alter gene expression patterns and elevate micronuclei (MN) frequency, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key gene regulators that may be influenced by PAH exposures and mediate their effects on MN fr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Deng Q,Huang S,Zhang X,Zhang W,Feng J,Wang T,Hu D,Guan L,Li J,Dai X,Deng H,Zhang X,Wu T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intercomparison exercise was conducted for the quantification of arsenic species in spiked human urine. The primary objective of the exercise was to determine the variance among laboratories in the analysis of arsenic species such as inorganic As (As+3 and As+5), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA), and dimethylarsinic ac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Crecelius E,Yager J

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess quantitatively the association between benzene and leukemia, we evaluated the rate of mortality experienced by a cohort occupationally exposed to benzene. Using data from historical air sampling surveys, we estimated the daily benzene exposure for each member of the cohort. The expected number of leukemia de...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rinsky RA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptions of endocrine disruption have largely been associated with wildlife and driven by observations documenting estrogenic, androgenic, antiandrogenic, and antithyroid actions. These actions, in response to exposure to ecologically relevant concentrations of various environmental contaminants, have now been est...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comamonas testosteroni YZW-D was isolated from Passaic River sediment for its ability to degrade isophthalate and terephthalate. Degradation of the two isomeric compounds proceeds via separately inducible catabolic pathways that converge at protocatechuate. Analysis of the catabolic pathways by which these two isomers...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wang YZ,Zhou Y,Zylstra GJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of approximately 650 beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) inhabits a short segment of the St. Lawrence estuary (SLE). Over 17 years (1983-1999), we have examined 129 (or 49%) of 263 SLE beluga carcasses reported stranded. The major primary causes of death were respiratory and gastrointestinal infections with me...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Martineau D,Lemberger K,Dallaire A,Labelle P,Lipscomb TP,Michel P,Mikaelian I

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Nitrate contamination of drinking water implies a genotoxic risk to man due to the endogenous formation of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds from nitrate-derived nitrite. Thus far, epidemiological studies have presented conflicting results on the relation of drinking water nitrate levels with gastric cancer incidence. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kleinjans JC,Albering HJ,Marx A,van Maanen JM,van Agen B,ten Hoor F,Swaen GM,Mertens PL

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Despite experimental evidence, most epidemiologic studies to date have not supported an association between exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POP) and breast cancer incidence in humans. This may be attributable to difficulties in estimating blood/tissue POP concentration at critical time periods of ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Verner MA,Charbonneau M,López-Carrillo L,Haddad S

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Assessing cumulative effects of the multiple environmental factors influencing mortality remains a challenging task. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to examine the associations between cumulative environmental quality and all-cause and leading cause-specific (heart disease, cancer, and stroke) mortality rates. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jian Y,Messer LC,Jagai JS,Rappazzo KM,Gray CL,Grabich SC,Lobdell DT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arsenic (As) occurs as monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) in humans, and the methylation pattern demonstrates large interindividual differences. The fraction of urinary MMA is a marker for susceptibility to As-related diseases. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the impact of polymorphisms in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Engström K,Vahter M,Mlakar SJ,Concha G,Nermell B,Raqib R,Cardozo A,Broberg K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collaborative studies were performed to develop a functional assay for fish-killing activity produced by Pfiesteria piscicida. Eight cell lines were used to screen organic fractions and residual water fraction by using a 3-[4, 5-dimethylthiazol-(2-4)]-diphenyltetrazolium bromide cytotoxicity assay. Diethyl ether and a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fairey ER,Edmunds JS,Deamer-Melia NJ,Glasgow H Jr,Johnson FM,Moeller PR,Burkholder JM,Ramsdell JS

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of rats to quartz (or various other particles) can lead to the development of lung tumors. At the moment, the mechanisms involved in particle-induced tumor formation are not clarified. However, it is suggested that inflammation, in conjunction with the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and an enhanc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nehls P,Seiler F,Rehn B,Greferath R,Bruch J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although previous studies have reported negative associations between exposure to air pollution and cognition, studies of the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures in early childhood have been limited. OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess the role exposure to fine particulate matter ([Formula: see text]) du...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rivas I,Basagaña X,Cirach M,López-Vicente M,Suades-González E,Garcia-Esteban R,Álvarez-Pedrerol M,Dadvand P,Sunyer J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The widespread use of organophosphorus (OP) pesticides has led to frequent exposure in adults and children. Because such exposure may cause adverse health effects, particularly in children, the sources and patterns of exposure need to be studied further. OBJECTIVES:We assessed young urban/suburban children'...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lu C,Barr DB,Pearson MA,Waller LA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The articles in this monograph focus on the mechanisms whereby ambient particulate matter (PM) and co-pollutants deposited in the respiratory tract cause cardiovascular and systemic effects, especially in persons with preexisting conditions such as allergic hyperresponsiveness and pulmonary, cardiac, and vascular dise...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yeates DB,Mauderly JL

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular activated carbon (GAC), in the presence of dilute aqueous hypochlorite solutions typical of those used in water treatment, was converted to a reagent capable of carrying out free-radical coupling reactions and other oxidations of dilute aqueous solutions of phenols. The products included biphenyls with chlori...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Voudrias EA,Larson RA,Snoeyink VL,Chen AS,Stapleton PL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00