Impatiens pollen germination and tube growth as a bioassay for toxic substances.

abstract：:An impressive array of evidence has been obtained during the past decade establishing correlations between specific DNA adducts and carcinogenesis. Many of the studies utilized organ specific differences in carcinogenesis to establish the correlations. More recently, we have investigated similar relationships between ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Swenberg JA,Richardson FC,Boucheron JA,Dyroff MC

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed questionnaire and physician examination data for 1560 new immigrants from the former USSR divided into three groups by potential exposure to Chernobyl radiation. Two groups were chosen according to soil contamination by cesium-137 at former residences, as confirmed by our findings in a 137Cs body burden st...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kordysh EA,Goldsmith JR,Quastel MR,Poljak S,Merkin L,Cohen R,Gorodischer R

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humans living near industrial point emissions can experience high levels of exposures to air pollutants. Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Thailand is the location of the largest steel, oil refinery, and petrochemical factory complexes in Southeast Asia. Air pollution is an important source of oxidative stres...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Peluso M,Srivatanakul P,Munnia A,Jedpiyawongse A,Ceppi M,Sangrajrang S,Piro S,Boffetta P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last three decades, the use of modern organic synthetic pesticides has increased about 40-fold. Total U.S. production, for domestic and expert use, in 1976 was about 1.4 million pounds. Crops receiving the most intensive application of various pesticides were cotton for insecticides, corn for herbicides, an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ridgway RL,Tinney JC,MacGregor JT,Starler NJ

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counties in the United States have been identified with chemical establishments whose primary manufacturing processes use vinyl chloride. Site-specific cancer mortality comparisons have revealed an excess of multiple myeloma in males associated with two of the manufacturing categories, synthetic rubber and synthetic f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mason TJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The World Health Organization is the agency responsible for reporting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicator "percentage of population using solid fuels." In this article, we present the results of a comprehensive assessment of solid fuel use, conducted in 2005, and discuss the implications of our fi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rehfuess E,Mehta S,Prüss-Ustün A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exceptional aging, defined as reaching age 85 years, shows geographic inequalities that may depend on local environmental conditions. Links between particulate pollution-a well-recognized environmental risk factor-and exceptional aging have not been investigated. OBJECTIVES:We conducted a nationwide analysi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baccarelli AA,Hales N,Burnett RT,Jerrett M,Mix C,Dockery DW,Pope CA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro liver preparations are increasingly used for the study of hepatotoxicity of chemicals. In recent years their actual advantages and limitations have been better defined. The cell models, slices, and mainly primary hepatocyte cultures, appear to be the most powerful in vitro systems, as liver-specific functions...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Guillouzo A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prospective cohort studies constitute the major source of evidence about the mortality effects of chronic exposure to particulate air pollution. Additional studies are needed to provide evidence on the health effects of chronic exposure to particulate matter < or = 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zeger SL,Dominici F,McDermott A,Samet JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike laboratory animals, people are rarely exposed to a single hazardous chemical. However, most of the information documenting adverse human health effects from environmental and occupational contaminants has come from studies focused on exposure to single chemicals, and there is little information available on how...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carpenter DO,Arcaro KF,Bush B,Niemi WD,Pang S,Vakharia DD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative potencies for 30 compounds scheduled for carcinogenic testing in the 2-year rodent bioassays were estimated based on comparisons with a wide variety of bioassay data for benzo[a]pyrene, nicotine, cisplatin, aflatoxin B1, and cyclophosphamide. Potential for oncogenic transformation of each of the compounds was...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jones TD,Easterly CE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the issues dealing with identifying potential adverse immunologic effects (i.e., suppression, hypersensitivity, or autoimmunity) associated with xenobiotic exposure, general agreement exists among the regulatory and pharmaceutical communities that predictive tests for autoimmunity are in most need of development...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Luster MI,Simeonova PP,Gallucci R,Matheson J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of cadmium is determined by chelation reactions: in vivo, Cd2+ exists exclusively in coordination complexes with biological ligands, or with administered chelating agents. The Cd2+ ion has some soft character, but it is not a typical soft ion. It has a high degree of polarizability, and its complexes with...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Andersen O

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphates in increasing amounts and wider varieties of molecular structure are being used to replace the organochlorine pesticides. It has been assumed that the organophosphates as a class would have a minimal chronic toxicity due to rapid hydrolysis and an unfavorable partitioning as regards to lipids. The phy...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Freed VH,Haque R,Schmedding D,Kohnert R

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo bone lead measurement using K X-ray fluorescence (KXRF) has been used to estimate long-term lead exposure, especially in adults. Relatively few studies have been conducted on young subjects with this technique. To explore the measurement variability of KXRF bone lead measurements in young subjects, the tibiae ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hoppin JA,Aro A,Hu H,Ryan PB

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood and its prevalence is increasing, causing much concern for identification of risk factors such as air pollution. We previously conducted a study showing a relationship between asthma visits in all persons < 65 years of age to emergency departments (EDs) and air po...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Norris G,YoungPong SN,Koenig JQ,Larson TV,Sheppard L,Stout JW

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:We assessed chlorinated hydrocarbon contamination of mink and river otters on the Columbia and Fraser River systems of northwestern North America, in relation to morphological measures of condition. We obtained carcasses of mink and river otters from commercial trappers during the winters 1994-1995 and 1995-1996. Necr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harding LE,Harris ML,Stephen CR,Elliott JE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will briefly outline those elements which must be considered in assessing the effects of any given compound which might impinge on the actions of adrenocortical steroids. Considerations that ought to be taken into account include the following: the delivery to the affected cells of corticosteroids, the upta...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson EB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To set occupational exposure limits (OELs) for aerosol particles, dusts, or chemicals, one has to evaluate whether mechanistic considerations permit identification of a no observed effect level (NOEL). In the case of carcinogenic effects, this can be assumed if no genotoxicity is involved, and exposure is considered s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Greim HA,Ziegler-Skylakakis K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traffic-related air pollution is emerging as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and impaired brain development. Individual differences in vulnerability to air pollution may involve the ε4 allele of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, the primary genetic risk factor for AD. OBJECTIVE:We analyzed whether th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Alemany S,Vilor-Tejedor N,García-Esteban R,Bustamante M,Dadvand P,Esnaola M,Mortamais M,Forns J,van Drooge BL,Álvarez-Pedrerol M,Grimalt JO,Rivas I,Querol X,Pujol J,Sunyer J

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic scleroderma are autoimmune diseases thought to have an exogenous trigger. This review summarizes relevant case-control and cohort studies that investigated exogenous sex hormones, silica, silicone, solvents, pesticides, mercuric chloride, and hair dyes as putative risk factors...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mayes MD

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenylphosphonothioate insecticides EPN and leptophos, and several analogs, were evaluated with respect to their delayed neurotoxic effects in hens and their environmental behavior in a terrestrial-aquatic model ecosystem. Acute toxicity to insects was highly correlated with sigma sigma of the substituted phenyl g...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Francis BM,Hansen LG,Fukuto TR,Lu PY,Metcalf RL

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：:A comprehensive environmental fate and effects testing program, sponsored by the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) Phthalate Esters Program Panel, has been completed. Based on the results, a preliminary safety assessment has shown that all of the 14 commercially important phthalates tested have sufficiently hig...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Group EF Jr

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a 1994 Ninth Circuit decision on the remand of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Judge Alex Kosinski wrote that science done for the purpose of litigation should be subject to more stringent standards of admissibility than other science. OBJECTIVES:We analyze this proposition by considering l...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Boden LI,Ozonoff D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethene is, on a molar basis, a major urban air pollutant. It has been shown beyond doubt that a fraction of inhaled ethene is metabolized in mammals (including humans) via ethylene oxide, an electrophilic reagent that has been shown to be mutagenic and carcinogenic. To the extent that the linearity hypothesis for dose...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Törnqvist M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were used to study the general activity and the isoenzyme spectrum of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) during single-instance and long-term introduction of polychlorocamphene. Total lactate dehydrogenase activity decreases in the liver during the single-instance introduction of half the LD50 (120 mg/kg). The isoenzyme...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuz'minskaya UA,Alekhina SM

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin adducts of the common metabolite of the tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA) 4-hydroxy-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (HPB) and of 4-aminobiphenyl (4-ABP) were quantified in blood samples from smokers and nonsmokers to test their suitability for biomonitoring tobacco smoke exposure. Additionally, TSNA adducts were...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schäffler G,Betz C,Richter E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on New York City's World Trade Center (WTC) caused an unprecedented environmental emergency. The collapse of the towers sent a tremendous cloud of crushed building materials and other pollutants into the air of lower Manhattan. In response to the calamity, federal, state, and cit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gavett SH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00