Factors affecting Sertoli cell function in the testis.

abstract：:A meeting on Marine Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, was attended by approximately 125 scientists, directors and representatives from many of the country's marine b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bessey O

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined cytogeneticurine metabolite analysis approach was used to assess potential interactive effects between Fenarimol (FN), a fungicide, and trichloroethylene (TRI), a halogenated solvent. FN was demonstrated to selectively induce P450-2B1 isoforms in different organs of treated mice. Since the rate of metabolis...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hrelia P,Maffei F,Vigagni F,Fimognari C,Flori P,Stanzani R,Cantelli Forti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on the influence of selenium on the toxicity of methylmercury and of methylmercury on selenium as a nutrient and toxic agent are reviewed. Selenium as selenite has a relative protective effect on acute and subacute toxicity of methylmercury in the rat and the quail. The protective mechanism is far f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Skerfving S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed to investigate the effects of FireMaster FF-1, a chemical fire retardant consisting of a mixture of polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), on immune functions in mice and rats. Animals received 22 daily treatments of 0.03, 0.3, 3.0, or 30 mg PBB/kg body weight in a period covering 30 days. PBB exposure...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Luster MI,Faith RE,Moore JA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research conducted in recent years has increased public health concern about the toxicity of lead at low dose and has supported a reappraisal of the levels of lead exposure that may be safely tolerated in the workplace. In this article, which appears as part of a mini-monograph on adult lead exposure, we summarize a b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kosnett MJ,Wedeen RP,Rothenberg SJ,Hipkins KL,Materna BL,Schwartz BS,Hu H,Woolf A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1966 and 1986, the childhood leukemia rate in Woburn, Massachusetts, was 4-fold higher than the national average. A multidisciplinary research team from MIT, which is being supported by the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program, has explored the possible importance of a temporal correlation between the period...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Durant JL,Chen J,Hemond HF,Thilly WG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane toxicity originates from attack on biological targets by reactive intermediates derived from haloalkane metabolism by a hemoprotein, cytochrome P-450. Carbon-centered radicals and their peroxyl derivatives are most likely involved. The reactions of iron porphyrin--a model for cytochrome P-450--with various ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brault D

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean pollution affects marine organisms and ecosystems as well as humans. The International Oceanographic Commission recommends ocean health monitoring programs to investigate the presence of marine contaminants and the health of threatened species and the use of multiple and early-warning biomarker approac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Godard-Codding CA,Clark R,Fossi MC,Marsili L,Maltese S,West AG,Valenzuela L,Rowntree V,Polyak I,Cannon JC,Pinkerton K,Rubio-Cisneros N,Mesnick SL,Cox SB,Kerr I,Payne R,Stegeman JJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are persistent chemicals that have been widely used as flame retardants in furniture, carpet padding, car seats, and other consumer products during the past three decades. OBJECTIVE:We examined whether in utero exposure to PBDEs is associated with child cognitive funct...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chen A,Yolton K,Rauch SA,Webster GM,Hornung R,Sjödin A,Dietrich KN,Lanphear BP

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of experiments is described in which operant methodology is used to study the effects of drugs on "learning." Emphasis is placed on the technique of repeated acquisition as a behavioral baseline for studying this type of transition state. In this technique, each subject is required to learn a new discriminati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson DM,Moerschbaecher JM

更新日期：1978-10-01 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

abstract：:The development of inhalation toxicology as a distinct discipline can be traced back well over one hundred years. The technology has advanced in terms of materials and designs used to construct inhalation chambers and the equipment used to generate controlled test atmospheres of a wide variety of gases, vapors, dusts,...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dorato MA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extended our previous analyses of term low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth to 1994-2000, a period of declining air pollution levels in the South Coast Air Basin. We speculated that the effects we observed previously for carbon monoxide, particulate matter < 10 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), and traffic...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wilhelm M,Ritz B

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the knowledge of high risk groups in the standard-setting process is examined. The overall conclusion is that many potential high risk segments of the population have not been studied adequately and that this deficiency in our knowledge markedly reduces the ability of decision makers to derive appropriate ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Calabrese EJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose influences mechanism; and over a wide range of doses, one can envision that mechanism will change with changing dose. This basic concept in toxicology is juxtaposed with the biologic importance of maintaining normal DNA methylation status to provide the focus of this paper. The idea that altered DNA methylation p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goodman JI

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal treatment of female mice with diethystilbestrol (DES) is known to induce ovary-independent persistent proliferation and cornification of vaginal epithelium. This irreversibly changed vaginal epithelium persistently expressed higher levels of c-jun and c-fos mRNAs, which was not altered by postpubertal estroge...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Iguchi T,Fukazawa Y,Bern HA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to metals has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease (PD). OBJECTIVES:We sought to examine in a large prospective study of female nurses whether exposure to airborne metals was associated with risk of PD. METHODS:We linked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Air Toxi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Palacios N,Fitzgerald K,Roberts AL,Hart JE,Weisskopf MG,Schwarzschild MA,Ascherio A,Laden F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short articles on the following topics: *NIEHS Strategic Plan: New Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and Human Health; Beyond the Bench: Environmental Health Nursing: Putting Knowledge into Practice; Headliners: Inhibition of RLIP76 Causes Complete Regression of Melanoma in Mice. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hood E,Tillett T,Phelps J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), an important cofactor in the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma in Taiwan, is influenced by dietary and other factors. The present study examined the intraindividual variability in AFB1-albumin adducts, the most reliable long-term biomarker of AFB1 exposure, and whether the baseline ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ahsan H,Wang LY,Chen CJ,Tsai WY,Santella RM

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Okadaic acid, dinophysistoxin-1 (35-methylokadaic acid), and calyculin A are the okadaic acid class of non-12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-type tumor promoters, which do not bind to the phorbol ester receptors in cell membranes or activate protein kinase C in vitro. They have potent tumor-promoting activiti...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fujiki H,Suganuma M,Yoshizawa S,Nishiwaki S,Winyar B,Sugimura T

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy. Structure-activity studies have shown that a close derivative, propionitrile (ethyl cyanide), causes duodenal ulcer without markedly affecting the adrenal glands. Prolonging the two-carbon chain o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Szabo S,Reynolds ES

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobehavioral toxicology is now established as a core discipline of the environmental health sciences. Despite its recognized scientific prowess, stemming from its deep roots in psychology and neuroscience and its acknowledged successes, it faces additional demands and challenges. The latter, in fact, are a product ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Weiss B,Elsner J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess levels of chlorinated contaminants in breast milk, we measured organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in breast milk samples collected in 1994 according to the World Health Organization protocol from 92 donors...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hooper K,Petreas MX,Chuvakova T,Kazbekova G,Druz N,Seminova G,Sharmanov T,Hayward D,She J,Visita P,Winkler J,McKinney M,Wade TJ,Grassman J,Stephens RD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum lactate [Al(lact)3] (hydrophilic, hydrolytically unstable) and aluminum acetylacetonate [Al(acae)3] (lipophilic, hydrolytically stable) were tested as potential toxicants to rabbits upon IV administration both as aqueous solutions and as liposome suspensions. Both chemicals behaved as cardiotoxic agents when ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bombi GG,Corain B,Favarato M,Giordano R,Nicolini M,Perazzolo M,Tapparo A,Zatta P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Daily adult human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been estimated at <1 µg/kg, with virtually complete first-pass conjugation in the liver in primates but not in mice. We measured unconjugated and conjugated BPA levels in serum from adult female rhesus monkeys and adult female mice after oral administration ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Taylor JA,Vom Saal FS,Welshons WV,Drury B,Rottinghaus G,Hunt PA,Toutain PL,Laffont CM,VandeVoort CA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer may be a stem cell (SC)-based disease involving formation of cancer SCs (CSCs) potentially arising from transformation of normal SCs. Cadmium has been linked to human pancreatic cancer. OBJECTIVE:We studied cadmium exposure of human pancreatic ductal epithelial (HPDE) cells and whether SCs may be tar...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Qu W,Tokar EJ,Kim AJ,Bell MW,Waalkes MP

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to transportation noise is widespread and has been associated with obesity in some studies. However, the evidence from longitudinal studies is limited and little is known about effects of combined exposure to different noise sources. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this longitudinal study was to estimate the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pyko A,Eriksson C,Lind T,Mitkovskaya N,Wallas A,Ögren M,Östenson CG,Pershagen G

更新日期：2017-11-20 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：BACKGROUND:Thyroid hormones are important regulators of brain development. During critical periods of development, even transient disorders in thyroid hormone availability may lead to profound neurologic impairment. Animal experiments have shown that certain environmental pollutants, including heavy metals and organoch...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Maervoet J,Vermeir G,Covaci A,Van Larebeke N,Koppen G,Schoeters G,Nelen V,Baeyens W,Schepens P,Viaene MK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00