Inter-host Transmission of Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli among Humans and Backyard Animals.

abstract：:The capacity of in vitro bioassays to detect the potential carcinogenicity of metal compounds is reviewed. The in vitro bioassays discussed include: bacterial reversion analysis to determine the capacity of metal salts to revert Salmonella typhimurium histidine auxotrophs or to revert Escherichia coli WP 2 tryp- to tr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sirover MA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed exposure to dioxin-like compounds using chemical and bioassay analysis in different matrices in a female population. A total of 106 serum and 9 follicular fluid samples were collected from infertile women attending Centers for Reproductive Medicine in Belgium from 1996 to 1998. Major polychlorinated biphen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pauwels A,Cenijn PH,Schepens PJ,Brouwer A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methylmercury through fish consumption. However, blood mercury levels in this group have not been identified in recent reports of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the y...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hightower JM,O'Hare A,Hernandez GT

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurogenic inflammation as a pathway distinct from antigen-driven, immune-mediated inflammation may play a pivotal role in understanding a broad class of environmental health problems resulting from chemical exposures. Recent progress in understanding the mediators, triggers, and regulation of neurogenic inflammation ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Meggs WJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 53 individuals from a population highly exposed to airborne hexachlorobenzene (HCB) were selected to study the elimination kinetics of this chemical in humans. The volunteers provided blood, 24-hr urine, and feces samples for analysis of HCB and metabolites. The serum HCB concentrations ranged from 2.4 to 1,4...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： To-Figueras J,Barrot C,Sala M,Otero R,Silva M,Ozalla MD,Herrero C,Corbella J,Grimalt J,Sunyer J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous literature suggests an association between organochlorines and behavioral measures in childhood, including inattention. OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to assess whether prenatal organochlorine exposure is associated with measures of attention in early infancy. METHODS:We investigated an associa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sagiv SK,Nugent JK,Brazelton TB,Choi AL,Tolbert PE,Altshul LM,Korrick SA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of technical and statistical problems in monitoring the temporal and spatial variation of local area death rates in the United States for evidence of systematically elevated risks. An analytic strategy is proposed to reduce one of the major statistical concerns, i.e., that of identifying areas with ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Manton KG,Stallard E,Creason JP,Riggan WB

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implications of the multistage theory of carcinogenesis for evaluating the effect of exposure to carcinogens in the workplace are described. This theory predicts different patterns of excess risk related to duration of exposure, age at initial exposure, and follow-up time since exposure stopped, depending upon which s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown CC,Chu KC

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Previous NIOSH studies demonstrated the embryo- and fetotoxicity and teratogenicity of ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (EGEE) applied to the shaved skin of pregnant rats. In the present study ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate (EGEEA), ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE), and diethylene glycol monoethyl ether ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hardin BD,Goad PT,Burg JR

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:comments on S. Patandin et al. : Dietary exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins from infancy until adulthood: a comparison between breast-feeding, toddler, and long-term exposure. Environ Health Perspect 107:45-51 (1999). ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： LaKind JS,Filser JG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium resorbs alveolar fluid through combined action of sodium channels and the sodium pump, Na,K-ATPase. The lung often is exposed to hyperoxia in disease states and hyperoxia generates a mixture of reactive oxygen species. In vivo and in vitro exposure of rat lung and alveolar type II cells, respective...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wendt CH,Sharma R,Bair R,Towle H,Ingbar DH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extreme heat events (EHEs) are increasing in frequency in large U.S. cities and are responsible for a greater annual number of climate-related fatalities, on average, than any other form of extreme weather. In addition, low-density, sprawling patterns of urban development have been associated with enhanced s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stone B,Hess JJ,Frumkin H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emerging consensus that exposure to near-roadway traffic-related pollution causes asthma has implications for compact urban development policies designed to reduce driving and greenhouse gases. OBJECTIVES:We estimated the current burden of childhood asthma-related disease attributable to near-roadway an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Perez L,Lurmann F,Wilson J,Pastor M,Brandt SJ,Künzli N,McConnell R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental air pollutants are inhaled as complex mixtures, but the long dominant focus of monitoring and research on individual pollutants has provided modest insight into pollutant interactions that may be important to health. Trends toward managing multiple pollutants to maximize aggregate health gains ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mauderly JL,Samet JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:All cells contain elaborate systems for the spatial and temporal regulation of the calcium ion, [Ca2+]i, and diverse Ca2+ receptor and biochemical response systems that are regulated by these changes in [Ca2+]i. Toxicants that perturb the mobilization or homeostasis of [Ca2+]i will place the regulation of these proces...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pounds JG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposures to high-dose ionizing radiation and high-dose rate ionizing radiation are established risk factors for childhood acute leukemia (AL). The risk of AL following exposure to lower doses due to natural background radiation (NBR) has yet to be conclusively determined. METHODS:AL cases diagnosed over 19...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Demoury C,Marquant F,Ielsch G,Goujon S,Debayle C,Faure L,Coste A,Laurent O,Guillevic J,Laurier D,Hémon D,Clavel J

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Groundwater contamination is a serious problem that is growing in the United States, but its true extent is not known and it is difficult to determine because of the complexities of contaminants, their transformation, and fate in groundwater systems. It is also difficult to predict their movement in groundwater. Since...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Patrick R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although animal experiments have shown that cadmium exposure results in severe dental caries, limited epidemiologic data are available on this issue. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to examine the relationship between environmental cadmium exposure and dental caries in children 6-12 years of age. METHODS:We analyzed c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arora M,Weuve J,Schwartz J,Wright RO

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Soil ingestion estimates play an important role in risk assessment of contaminated sites, and estimates of soil ingestion in children are of special interest. Current estimates of soil ingestion are trace-element specific and vary widely among elements. Although expressed as daily estimates, the actual estimates have ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stanek EJ 3rd,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are suspected of altering estrogenic signaling through estrogen receptor (ER) α or β (mERβ1 in mice). Several EDC effects have been reported in animal studies and extrapolated to human studies. Unlike humans, rodents express a novel isoform of ERβ (mERβ2) with a modified...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Donoghue LJ,Neufeld TI,Li Y,Arao Y,Coons LA,Korach KS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of polymeric materials in the body to repair and restore damaged or diseased tissues and organs is substantially increasing on an annual basis. Concomitant with this use is an increase in materials related research on medically used polymers. Information on the historical and current clinical use of p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： King RN,Lyman DJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) has highly pleiotropic effects on cells in culture and on tissues in vivo, including effects on protein kinase C (PKC) activation and gene expression. In order to determine the mechanism of activation of gene transcription by TPA, DNA sequences whose transc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johnson MD,Housey GM,O'Brian CA,Kirschmeier PT,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This working paper summarizes the known ultrastructural and biochemical effects of lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic on subcellular organelle systems following in vivo administration. Documented metal-induced alterations in nuclear, mitochondrial, microsomal, and lysosomal functions are discussed in relation to thei...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fowler BA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tremor is one of the most common neurological signs, yet its etiology is poorly understood. Case-control studies suggest an association between blood lead and essential tremor, and that this association is modified by polymorphisms in the δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydrogenase (ALAD) gene. OBJECTIVE:We aimed t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ji JS,Power MC,Sparrow D,Spiro A 3rd,Hu H,Louis ED,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic exposure to well water arsenic (As) remains a major rural health challenge in Bangladesh and some other developing countries. Many mitigation programs have been implemented to reduce As exposure, although evaluation studies for these efforts are rare in the literature. OBJECTIVES:In this study we es...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Khan K,Ahmed E,Factor-Litvak P,Liu X,Siddique AB,Wasserman GA,Slavkovich V,Levy D,Mey JL,van Geen A,Graziano JH

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship of fine particulate matter < 2.5 microm in diameter (PM(2.5)) air pollution with mortality and cardiovascular disease is well established, with more recent long-term studies reporting larger effect sizes than earlier long-term studies. Some studies have suggested the coarse fraction, particl...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Puett RC,Hart JE,Yanosky JD,Paciorek C,Schwartz J,Suh H,Speizer FE,Laden F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00