Indications of repair of radon-induced chromosome damage in human lymphocytes: an adaptive response induced by low doses of X-rays.

abstract：:As a consequence of contamination by effluents from local electronics manufacturing facilities, the New Bedford Harbor and estuary in southeastern Massachusetts is among the sites in the United States that are considered the most highly contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Since 1993, measures of intraute...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Korrick SA,Altshul L

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that local public health agencies use local data to identify children at risk for lead exposure to ensure that they receive preventive services. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the usefulness of a geographic information system (GIS) in identifying...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Reissman DB,Staley F,Curtis GB,Kaufmann RB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of lime in the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), i.e., O2-., H2O2, and OH., from betel-quid components (extracts of areca nut and catechu) was investigated in vitro using a chemiluminescence technique and an assay for oxidative DNA damage involving analysis of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine. Of the var...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nair UJ,Obe G,Friesen M,Goldberg MT,Bartsch H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental health and environmental quality issues along the U.S.-Mexico border have been of concern for several years. The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the presence of the maquiladoras (foreign-owned industries using imported raw materials) have intensified those concerns recently. Effo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carter DE,Peña C,Varady R,Suk WA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Air pollution data in Bangkok, Thailand, indicate that levels of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < or = 10 microm (PM(10)) are significantly higher than in most cities in North America and Western Europe, where the health effects of PM(10) are well documented. However, the pollution mix, seasona...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vichit-Vadakan N,Vajanapoom N,Ostro B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified mathematical model which made use of Fick's laws of diffusion written in spherical coordinates was developed to describe the rate of diffusion of residual monomers from polymer resins. The properties of the monomer-polymer system which influenced the amount of monomer remaining in the polymer as a functio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Piver WT

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfation plays an important role both in detoxification and in the control of steroid activity. Studies in rodents have shown that the conversion of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to DHEA-sulfate is involved in learning and the memory process. METHODS:The effects of a range of plasticizers and related compo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harris R,Turan N,Kirk C,Ramsden D,Waring R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, the Helicobacter pylori [(13)C]urea breath test was offered to all school beginners (birth cohort 1991/1992) in the city of Leipzig and in Leipzig County, Germany, to determine the colonization prevalence and potential transmission pathways of the bacterium. A total of 3,347 school beginners participated in t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Herbarth O,Krumbiegel P,Fritz GJ,Richter M,Schlink U,Müller DM,Richter T

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein from livers of mice was isolated by gel chromatography and isoelectric focusing. One of two forms thus obtained contained 32 percent cysteine. This form, labeled in vitro with 109Cd, was injected intravenously in mice, and the distribution of 109Cd was studied. Animals killed after 4 hrs had over 80 pe...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nordberg M,Nordberg GF

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human biomonitoring investigations have provided data on a wide array of chemicals in blood and urine and in other tissues and fluids such as hair and human milk. These data have prompted questions such as a) What is the relationship between levels of environmental chemicals in humans and external exposures? b) What i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bates MN,Hamilton JW,LaKind JS,Langenberg P,O'Malley M,Snodgrass W

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential impact of microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by wireless communication devices on neurocognitive functions of adolescents is controversial. In a previous analysis, we found changes in figural memory scores associated with a higher cumulative RF-EMF brain dose in ad...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Foerster M,Thielens A,Joseph W,Eeftens M,Röösli M

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional models of toxicity have relied on dissecting chemical action into pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes. However, the integration of genomic information with toxicology will enhance our basic understanding of these processes and significantly change the way we apply toxicological information to ris...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomas RS,Rank DR,Penn SG,Zastrow GM,Hayes KR,Hu T,Pande K,Lewis M,Jovanovich SB,Bradfield CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious problems emerge when evaluating evidence on lead neurotoxicity in children. The extent of these problems and ways to control them were explored in a study of 1291 children from the first class in the schools of Aarhus municipality, Denmark. The lead retention in circumpulpal dentin in shed deciduous teeth was ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Grandjean P,Lyngbye T,Hansen ON

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are persistent, bioaccumulative, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. OBJECTIVES:We used handwipes to estimate exposure to PBDEs in house dust among toddlers and examined sex, age, breast-feeding, race, and parents' education as predictors of serum PBDEs. METHODS:Eight...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stapleton HM,Eagle S,Sjödin A,Webster TF

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After several decades of commercial use, the flame-retardant chemicals polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their metabolites are pervasive environmental contaminants and are detected in the human body. Decabrominated diphenyl ether (decaBDE) is currently the only PBDE in production in the United State...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rice DC,Thompson WD,Reeve EA,Onos KD,Assadollahzadeh M,Markowski VP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN) proposes to link environmental hazards and exposures to health outcomes. Statistical methods used in case-control and cohort studies to link health outcomes to individual exposure estimates are well developed. However, reliable exposure estimates for many contam...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mather FJ,White LE,Langlois EC,Shorter CF,Swalm CM,Shaffer JG,Hartley WR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of certain organic compounds in drinking water has led water treatment specialists to be increasingly concerned about the eventual risks of such pollutants to the health of consumers. Our experiments focused on the role of ozone and granular activated carbon in removing mutagenic compounds and precu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bourbigot MM,Hascoet MC,Levi Y,Erb F,Pommery N

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern about apparent increases in the prevalence of hypospadias--a congenital male reproductive-tract abnormality--in the 1960s to 1980s and the possible connection to increasing exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals have underlined the importance of effective surveillance of hypospadias prevalence in the popu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dolk H,Vrijheid M,Scott JE,Addor MC,Botting B,de Vigan C,de Walle H,Garne E,Loane M,Pierini A,Garcia-Minaur S,Physick N,Tenconi R,Wiesel A,Calzolari E,Stone D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil samples were collected from 28 fields which had received manure from Michigan's most highly contaminated dairy herds. The number of fields in each concentration range of PBB in soil were: 2, not detectable; 15, 0.0 to 8.0 ppb; 6, 14-102 ppb, and 5, 153 to 371 ppb. Plant tissue sampled from the 10 most highly cont...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jacobs LW,Chou SF,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1978-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although indoor residual spraying (IRS) with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and pyrethroids effectively controls malaria, it potentially increases human exposure to these insecticides. Previous studies suggest that prenatal exposure to these insecticides may impact human neurodevelopment. OBJECTIVES:...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Eskenazi B,An S,Rauch SA,Coker ES,Maphula A,Obida M,Crause M,Kogut KR,Bornman R,Chevrier J

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its unique geology, Minnesota can be divided into four agricultural regions: south-central region one (corn, soybeans); west-central region two (wheat, corn, soybeans); northwest region three (wheat, sugar beets, potatoes); and northeast region four (forested and urban in character). Cancer mortality (1980-...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schreinemachers DM,Creason JP,Garry VF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trying to publish a paper in a top-rated peer-reviewed journal can be a difficult and frustrating experience for authors. It is important that authors understand the general review process before submitting manuscripts for publication. OBJECTIVES:Editors-in-chief and associate editors from top-tier journals...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lee BM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the possibility that increases in UV-B exposure on the earth's surface could lead to impaired resistance to several infectious diseases, we studied the effect of UV-B exposure on resistance against Trichinella spiralis. Wistar rats, orally infected with T. spiralis larvae, were exposed to suberythemal doses ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goettsch W,Garssen J,Deijns A,de Gruijl FR,van Loveren H

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perfluoroalkyl acids are persistent compounds used in various industrial -applications. Of these compounds, perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) is currently detected in humans worldwide. A recent study on low-dose developmental exposure to PFOA in mice reported increased weight and elevated biomarkers of adiposity in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Halldorsson TI,Rytter D,Haug LS,Bech BH,Danielsen I,Becher G,Henriksen TB,Olsen SF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organophosphate developmental neurotoxicity involves multiple mechanisms converging on neural cell replication and differentiation. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated mechanisms contributing to the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos (CPF) on DNA synthesis, cell number and size, and cell signaling mediated by adenylyl cyc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slotkin TA,MacKillop EA,Ryde IT,Seidler FJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between ambient air pollution and adverse health effects, such as emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, has been studied extensively in many countries, including Canada. Recently, studies conducted in China, the Czech Republic, and the Unit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Liu S,Krewski D,Shi Y,Chen Y,Burnett RT

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides is an occupational hazard for farmworkers and affects their children through the take-home pathway. OBJECTIVES:We examined the effectiveness of a randomized community intervention to reduce pesticide exposure among farmworkers and their children. METHODS:We condu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson B,Coronado GD,Vigoren EM,Griffith WC,Fenske RA,Kissel JC,Shirai JH,Faustman EM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998 we published the results of a study suggesting an association between breast cancer and perchloroethylene (PCE; also called tetrachloroethylene) exposure from public drinking water. The present case-control study was undertaken to evaluate this association further. The cases were composed of female residents o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Aschengrau A,Rogers S,Ozonoff D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cumulative lead exposure is associated with a widened pulse pressure (PP; the -difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure), a marker of arterial stiffness and a predictor of cardiovascular disease. Polymorphisms in the hemochromatosis gene (HFE) have been shown to modify the impact of cumulativ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zhang A,Park SK,Wright RO,Weisskopf MG,Mukherjee B,Nie H,Sparrow D,Hu H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00