Differential carcinogenic effects of intraperitoneal initiation with 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene or urethane and topical promotion with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate in skin and internal tissues of female SENCAR and BALB/c mice.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomass smoke is an important source of particulate matter (PM), and much remains to be discovered with respect to the human health effects associated with this specific PM source. Exposure to biomass smoke can occur in one of two main categories: short-term exposures consist of periodic, seasonal exposures ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Migliaccio CT,Bergauff MA,Palmer CP,Jessop F,Noonan CW,Ward TJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Controversy remains regarding the relationship between ambient ozone and mortality worldwide. In mainland China, the largest developing country, there has been no prior study investigating the acute effect of O3 on death risk. Given the changes in types of air pollution from conventional coal combustion to t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zhang Y,Huang W,London SJ,Song G,Chen G,Jiang L,Zhao N,Chen B,Kan H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead are associated with cardiovascular disease in epidemiologic research. These associations may be mediated by direct effects of the metals on blood pressure (BP) elevation. Manganese is associated with cardiovascular dysfunction and hypotension in occupational cohorts. OBJE...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mordukhovich I,Wright RO,Hu H,Amarasiriwardena C,Baccarelli A,Litonjua A,Sparrow D,Vokonas P,Schwartz J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Institutes of Health's Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) initiative aims to understand the impact of environmental factors on childhood disease. Over 40,000 chemicals are approved for commercial use. The challenge is to prioritize chemicals for biomonitoring that may prese...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pellizzari ED,Woodruff TJ,Boyles RR,Kannan K,Beamer PI,Buckley JP,Wang A,Zhu Y,Bennett DH,(Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes).

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats continuously exposed to NO2 at 0.04, 0.4, and 4.0 ppm for as long as 27 months were submitted to morphological observation and electronmicroscopic morphometry of the lung. At 4 ppm exposure for 9 months, bronchial epithelium showed typical proliferation, which progressed further at 18 months. At this stage, proli...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kubota K,Murakami M,Takenaka S,Kawai K,Kyono H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the disease burden from water, sanitation, and hygiene at the global level taking into account various disease outcomes, principally diarrheal diseases. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) combines the burden from death and disability in a single index and permits the comparison of the burden from wa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Prüss A,Kay D,Fewtrell L,Bartram J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[35S]t-Butylbicyclophosphorothionate or [35S]TBPS is an improved radioligand for the picrotoxinin binding site in rat brain synaptic membranes. The toxic isomers of the hexachlorocyclohexanes, polychlorobornanes, and chlorinated cyclodienes displace [35S]TBPS with a stereospecificity and potency generally correlated w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Casida JE,Lawrence LJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:Atmospheric pollution from vehicular traffic is a matter of growing interest, often leading to temporary restrictions in urban areas. Although guidelines indicate limits for several parameters, the real toxicologic impacts remain largely unexplored in field conditions. In this study our aim was to validate an ecotoxic...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Regoli F,Gorbi S,Fattorini D,Tedesco S,Notti A,Machella N,Bocchetti R,Benedetti M,Piva F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-3 (IL-3) and granulocyte/macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) are responsible for maintaining survival and stimulating growth of early dormant hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC). These cytokines exhibit extensive overlap, with GM-CSF supporting growth and differentiation of myeloid HPC. A charac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Irons RD,Stillman WS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) with breast cancer is controversial, but animal studies directly linking DDT to risk are lacking. Concerns with DDT reside in its environmental persistence, bioaccumulation in breast adipose tissue, and endocrine-disrupting actions. Whereas most attent...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johnson NA,Ho A,Cline JM,Hughes CL,Foster WG,Davis VL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the present understanding of asthma leads to the following conclusions: an elevated IgE is the principal risk factor in the development of childhood asthma; secondary exposure to a wide range of environmental agents (including indoor bioallergens) accounts for the variations in prevalence; prevalence (defi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bates DV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations have demonstrated the ability of leukocytes to metabolize promutagens or procarcinogens into their genotoxic forms. As a possible explanation for the association between inflammation and cancer, we and others have hypothesized that local accumulations of leukocytes could take up nearby promutagen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Isola VJ,Hartman TC,Trumble SJ,Ruzek MC,Gentile JM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to determine whether prenatal mercury exposure, including potential releases from the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, adversely affects fetal growth and child development. METHODS:We determined maternal and umbilical cord blood total mercury of nonsmoking women who delivered at ter...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lederman SA,Jones RL,Caldwell KL,Rauh V,Sheets SE,Tang D,Viswanathan S,Becker M,Stein JL,Wang RY,Perera FP

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proto-oncogenes are cellular genes that are expressed during normal growth and developmental processes. Altered versions of normal proto-oncogenes have been implicated in the development of human neoplasia. In this report, we show the detection of activated proto-oncogenes in various spontaneous and chemically induced...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stowers SJ,Maronpot RR,Reynolds SH,Anderson MW

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence indicates a relationship between household indoor air pollution from cooking fires and adverse neonatal outcomes, such as low birth weight (LBW), in resource-poor countries. OBJECTIVE:We examined the effect of reduced wood smoke exposure in pregnancy on LBW of Guatemalan infants i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson LM,Bruce N,Eskenazi B,Diaz A,Pope D,Smith KR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and costs of pediatric disease in American children. We examined four categories of illness: lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and neurobehavioral disorders. To estimate the proportion of each attrib...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Landrigan PJ,Schechter CB,Lipton JM,Fahs MC,Schwartz J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Metallothioneins (MTs) are encoded by a multigene family in man. We have isolated those genes and analyzed the structure of some of them. The MT-II variant is encoded by a single functional gene: MT-IIA. The MT-IIB gene is a processed pseudogene derived from a reverse transcript of MT-II mRNA. On the other hand, the M...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Karin M,Richards RI

更新日期：1984-03-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have examined the effects of air pollution on mortality, data limitations have resulted in fewer studies of both particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 and < 10 mi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zanobetti A,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl parathion (MP), an organophosphate pesticide licensed only for agricultural uses, was sprayed illegally for pest control in Mississippi and Ohio residences. To evaluate the association between MP exposure and neurobehavioral development, we assessed children 6 years or younger at the time of the spraying and lo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ruckart PZ,Kakolewski K,Bove FJ,Kaye WE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few human studies have examined bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormones in men, and results are divergent. OBJECTIVES:We examined associations between urinary BPA concentration and reproductive hormones, as well as semen quality, in young men from the general popula...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lassen TH,Frederiksen H,Jensen TK,Petersen JH,Joensen UN,Main KM,Skakkebaek NE,Juul A,Jørgensen N,Andersson AM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At picomolar concentrations, lead activates protein kinase C (PKC). This activation has been implicated in the neurotoxicity of lead. No prior study has evaluated the association of PKC activity with neurobehavioral function in humans. The purpose of this study was to determine whether PKC activity is associated with ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hwang KY,Lee BK,Bressler JP,Bolla KI,Stewart WF,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Millions of individuals worldwide, particularly those living in rural and developing areas, are exposed to harmful levels of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in their drinking water. Inorganic As exposure during key developmental periods is associated with a variety of adverse health effects, including those that are...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bailey KA,Smith AH,Tokar EJ,Graziano JH,Kim KW,Navasumrit P,Ruchirawat M,Thiantanawat A,Suk WA,Fry RC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte micronucleus assay was used to measure the average frequency of micronuclei in a population and thus assess genotoxic effects. Data from 174 persons give an average value of 16.4 +/- 7.3, and a slight age-dependence was observed. To detect combined environmental mutagen injuries the micronucleus assay w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bérces J,Otos M,Szirmai S,Crane-Uruena C,Köteles GJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco smoke contains a number of genotoxic compounds that are metabolized to their biologically active forms that subsequently react with cellular DNA to form covalently bound carcinogen-DNA adducts. Several analytical procedures have been developed to detect these adducts in human tissues. Using the nuclease P1-enh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hansen C,Asmussen I,Autrup H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human lymphoblastoid cell line has been used to test for mutations caused by combustion-generated soot particles and their constituent components, which are substrate carbon-black and adsorbed condensate, principally in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). It was found that the mutagenicity of the PAH...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bolsaitis PP,Feitelberg AS,Dekermendjian V,Elliott JF,Sarofim AF,Thilly WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of malignant mesothelioma (MM) and nonoccupational asbestos exposure is currently debated. Our study investigates environmental and domestic asbestos exposure in the city where the largest Italian asbestos cement (AC) factory was located. This population-based case-control study included pleural MM (hi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Magnani C,Dalmasso P,Biggeri A,Ivaldi C,Mirabelli D,Terracini B

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00