Chemical agents and the immune response.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agricultural work and occupational pesticide use have been associated with increased risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer. However, few prospective studies have investigated links to specific pesticides. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the lifetime use of individual pesticides an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Andreotti G,Beane Freeman LE,Shearer JJ,Lerro CC,Koutros S,Parks CG,Blair A,Lynch CF,Lubin JH,Sandler DP,Hofmann JN

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microscopic, ultrastructural, and morphometric study was made of the gills of tench (Tinca tinca, L.) subjected to acute experimental lead nitrate poisoning. Twenty-one adult tench were subjected to poisoning and a further 22 were used as controls. Lesions were characterized by the appearance of edema and epithelial...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Roncero V,Vincente JA,Redondo E,Gãzquez A,Duran E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has marked a radical change in the business of sustainability, say environmental activists and industrialists alike. On the wane are "greenwashing" campaigns in which corporations promote dubious environmental accomplishments to draw attention away from environmentally damaging practices. On the rise a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fields S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may affect body mass index (BMI) and other components of cardiometabolic (CM) risk during childhood, but evidence is scarce and inconsistent. OBJECTIVES:We estimated associations between prenatal PFAS exposures and outcomes relevant to cardiometabolic risk, including a compo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Manzano-Salgado CB,Casas M,Lopez-Espinosa MJ,Ballester F,Iñiguez C,Martinez D,Romaguera D,Fernández-Barrés S,Santa-Marina L,Basterretxea M,Schettgen T,Valvi D,Vioque J,Sunyer J,Vrijheid M

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The subchronic inhalation toxicology of ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (EGEE) was evaluated in rats and rabbits using a 13-week exposure regimen. Groups of 20 rabbits (10 M, 10 F) and 30 rats (15 M, 15 F) were exposed to a vapor of 25 ppm, 100 ppm, or 400 ppm, 6 hr/day, 5 days/week. The control groups received air on...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Barbee SJ,Terrill JB,DeSousa DJ,Conaway CC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a comprehensive survey of the effects of the accidental release of radiation caused by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The accident and the resulting release of radiation and radioactive products into the atmosphere produced the most serious environm...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kulakov VI,Sokur TN,Volobuev AI,Tzibulskaya IS,Malisheva VA,Zikin BI,Ezova LC,Belyaeva LA,Bonartzev PD,Speranskaya NV

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：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：:We evaluated predictors of plasma concentrations of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a group of 240 women, controls from a breast cancer case-control study nested in the Nurses' Health Study. We considered personal at...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Laden F,Neas LM,Spiegelman D,Hankinson SE,Willett WC,Ireland K,Wolff MS,Hunter DJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nationwide, 45 states issue health advisories for sport fish consumers. Chemical contaminants in some Great Lakes (GL) sport fish include compounds suspected of causing adverse reproductive and developmental effects. Although advisories to reduce consumption of contaminated fish, especially by women, have been issued ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tilden J,Hanrahan LP,Anderson H,Palit C,Olson J,Kenzie WM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present available information regarding ovarian tumors in hens is incomplete in most aspects, and this lack of knowledge hampers use of hens as models for study of ovarian cancer. A study of 466 hens ranging from 2 to 7 years of age and covering a period of more than 3 years has provided much needed information relati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fredrickson TN

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats were treated with various model compounds or the appropriate vehicle controls. Most substances were either well-known hepatotoxicants or showed hepatotoxicity during preclinical testing. The aim of the present study was to determine if biological samples from rats treated with various compounds can be classi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Steiner G,Suter L,Boess F,Gasser R,de Vera MC,Albertini S,Ruepp S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphenol A (BPA) is known to be biologically active in experimental models even at low levels of exposure. However, its impact on endometrial cancer remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to investigate whether lifelong exposure to different doses of BPA induced uterine abnormalities and molecular ch...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Leung YK,Biesiada J,Govindarajah V,Ying J,Kendler A,Medvedovic M,Ho SM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipocortins are structurally related, glucocorticoid-inducible proteins that inhibit phospholipase A2 (PLA2), thereby reducing the liberation of arachidonic acid from phospholipids and so limiting the synthesis of eicosanoid inflammatory mediators. This study is the first demonstration of one lipocortin, lipocortin 1 ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Smith SF,Tetley TD,Guz A,Flower RJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and effluent emission (use and disposal) regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and manufacturing effluent discharge and emission regulations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) require contained manufacture, use, and disposal of pha...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Velagaleti R,Burns PK,Gill M,Prothro J

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Sulfur trioxide in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is removed and concentrated by absorption in a solution of 80% isopropyl alcohol, which quantitatively absorbs it and inhibits the oxidation of any sulfur dioxide which may be absorbed. The absorbed sulfur trioxide (sulfuric acid) is determined by an ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arnold DR

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on the health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) call for an understanding of past and present human exposure. Time-resolved mechanistic models may supplement information on concentrations in individuals obtained from measurements and/or statistical approaches if they can be shown to reprodu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nøst TH,Breivik K,Wania F,Rylander C,Odland JØ,Sandanger TM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of chromium(VI) with one equivalent of ascorbate was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in the presence of 0.10 M 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxide (DMPO) at room temperature in 0.10 M (N-[2-hydroxyethyl]piperazine-N'-[2-ethanesulfonic acid]) (HEPES) and 0.05 M tris(hydroxymethyl)aminometh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stearns DM,Courtney KD,Giangrande PH,Phieffer LS,Wetterhahn KE

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy affects between 5% and 7.5% of children and between 1% and 2% of adults. The greater prevalence of food allergy in children reflects both the increased predisposition of children to develop food allergies and the development of immunologic tolerance to certain foods over time. Immunoglobulin (Ig) E-mediat...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kagan RS

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Love Canal is a rectangular 16-acre, 10-ft deep chemical waste landfill situated in a residential neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. This seriously contaminated site first came to public attention in 1978. No studies have examined mortality in the former residents of the Love Canal neighborhood (LC...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gensburg LJ,Pantea C,Fitzgerald E,Stark A,Hwang SA,Kim N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of people worldwide are exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, and ingestion of inorganic arsenic (InAs) has been associated with increased risks of cancer. The primary metabolic pathway of ingested InAs is methylation to monomethyl arsenic (MMA) and dimethyl arsenic (DMA). However, people vary great...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Steinmaus C,Carrigan K,Kalman D,Atallah R,Yuan Y,Smith AH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental problems in population monitoring for genetic effects are twofold: the binomialized nature of the data and the lower power due to small risk of finding positive results. The binomial character is artificial, even forced, and can with advantage be replaced by more refined analysis, and by a focus on all...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Murphy EA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoke exposure in utero and during early postnatal development increases the incidence of asthma and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) later in life, suggesting that a possible critical period of developmental sensitivity exists in the prenatal and early postnatal periods. OBJECTIVE:We investigated...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wu ZX,Hunter DD,Kish VL,Benders KM,Batchelor TP,Dey RD

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is well established that air pollutants can exacerbate asthma, the link with new asthma onset in children is less clear. OBJECTIVE:We assessed the association between the onset of childhood asthma with both time of birth and time-varying exposures to outdoor air pollutants. METHOD:An open cohor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tétreault LF,Doucet M,Gamache P,Fournier M,Brand A,Kosatsky T,Smargiassi A

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Many thousand organic compounds are in common use and new ones introduced daily. With many of these materials, little is known about their toxic hazard. For years scientists have been investigating the relation of structure and properties to biological activity. Among the factors relating to toxicity are bioaccumulati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Freed VH,Chiou CT,Schmedding D,Kohnert R

更新日期：1979-06-01 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：:Studies of structure-activity relationships and molecular mechanisms of action are fundamental to our understanding of the harmful effects of chemicals on the environment and their more direct effects on human health. It is important to identify factors that determine toxicological effects of foreign chemicals in biol...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： McKinney JD

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have suggested an effect of high arsenic concentration on cognitive and neurobehavioral function in humans. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to identify demographic and nutritional factors that are associated with As exposure and the influence of this exposure on cognitive function in school-age chil...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rosado JL,Ronquillo D,Kordas K,Rojas O,Alatorre J,Lopez P,Garcia-Vargas G,Del Carmen Caamaño M,Cebrián ME,Stoltzfus RJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00